As Moose News reported on Thursday, the Northern Ontario Party has released a platform containing more than three dozen action items. The NOP wants Northern Ontario to produce its own hydro and eliminate using nuclear energy from the south. The party also wants to ban the idea of disposing nuclear waste in Northern Ontario. Several communities in the Algoma District have expressed an interest to accept nuclear waste and burying it deep underground. The NOP also wants to modernize the Mining Act so that local communities are the beneficiaries. And the party wants to form partnerships with mining companies and claim owners to build the infrastructure the Ring of Fire will need. The party is also suggesting that wages of all public sector servants shouldn’t exceed wages of employees in the private sector. The NOP wants to replace the Cap and Trade carbon tax program announced by the Liberals with one that reinvests in Northern Ontario. It will stop closing northern schools and would give school boards more powers with their budgets and curriculum. These are some of the issues the new party expects to fight the June, 2018 election on.
