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They don't care about us! I lived in southern ontario for 1 year to the date and could not move back to Thunder Bay fast enough! We're supposedly from the "same province" but being down there made me feel like I was from a different country! Most ppl assumed I lived near North Bay and most had no clue where I was from.
Many decisions are made for us and we have no voice just like the spring bear hunt. And now this year the MNR has cut funding for trapping bears. Ok I understand southern ontario wants to protect these cuddly cute animals that they are mostly laking in their area but up north they are EVERYWHERE! I am originally from Terrace Bay and there is a huge bear problem there. Then this year the MNR cut the bear trap funding and my friends from back home can't even let their kids play in the yard for fear of bears since they are entering their yards 2-4 days a week! I wonder how southern ontario would feel if we brought truck loads of these "cute animals" down and released them in their backyards!
Many of us northerners believe what is it gonna take for our voice to be heard?! A child to be mauled to death!!???
I am 150% in support of separating from southern ontario and have been for a very very long time!
There may be riches in Northern Ontario (there may be questions as to where the northern area begins and ends) but if you visit northern communities, especially Northeastern Ontario, you will wonder where exactly is this reflected? In its high unemployment rate? In its bad roads? In all those houses up for sale who cannot be sold because people are leaving the area for lack of jobs and opportunities for its young people? Come up for a visit and you will wonder too. As a former employment counselor, I have had a firsthand look at the effects of the sagging economy. The social and economic price we are paying is enormous as we see our 'riches' benefiting everyone but us.
The North is a larder that has been pundered for years. The bulk of the population of Ontario south of Major Mac exit cannot locate Sudbury, the Soo, Dryden or Cochrane even generally on a map; "somewhere up there" was the comment experienced in a study I did while at Uof T in the 1980s. Don't think their geographic knowledge has improved.