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Letter to the Editor Re: Mining and Ontario Throne Speech, Published in Toronto Star March 13, 2010

 

March 9, 2010
 
The Editors,
The Toronto Star
1 Yonge St.
Toronto.
 
Re: McGuinty Bets on Big Mining (The Star, March 9)
 
Dear Sir/Madam,
 
Well... It would have been a great Throne Speech - if it was 1910.
 
In this century though Ontario may well want to consider an economic strategy that does not involve large scale irrepairable ecological destruction, will not leave the province dependent on volatile resource commodity prices (ask the Albertans about that one), and that will actually provide long-term sustainable employment for northern communities.
 
Yours sincerely,  
Mark S. Winfield, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Coordinator Joint MES/JD Program
Faculty of Environmental Studies
York University
4700 Keele St.
Toronto, Ontario
M3J 1P3
Tel: 416-736-2100 ext. 21078
Fax: 416-736-5679