We’re less than two weeks away from provincial election day and the four main party leaders are converging on North Bay.
They’re here for the first of two leaders’ debates.
Friday’s session is being hosted by the Federation of Northern Ontario Municipalities, with northern issues the main focus.
The five Northern Ontario Large Urban Mayors (NOLUM) are encouraging all party leaders to support:
- · Four-lane highway expansions and more 2 + 1 highway commitments
- · A HART Hub in each NOLUM community
- · 50 new physicians by 2027, and
- · A Northern Talent Attraction Strategy to fill available jobs.
NOLUM Mayors are also calling on all party leaders to commit to fair funding of:
- · housing enabling infrastructure that takes into account higher construction costs, and
- · municipal police services that are facing cost escalations due to provincial legislation and the changing public safety needs of our communities.
The debate is taking place at Canadore and is being broadcast, and streamed on YouTube, by Cogeco.
A link is below.
The leaders have another debate lined up for Monday night.
Election day in Ontario is Feb. 27.
