Here we go again. The provincial and federal governments are putting the new French-language university in the francophone hotbed of Toronto. Young people of Northern Ontario have always been second-class citizens. Our young people have to pay triple to go to higher education in southern Ontario. How come children in southern Ontario do not have to go to school in Northern Ontario?

I will give you another example of how Northern Ontario gets the short stick: 3,400 children a year from Northern Ontario travel out of town to children’s hospitals in Toronto or Ottawa.

We knew that Toronto’s Sick Kids hospital was bursting at the seams, so a delegation tried for years to get a new Sick Kids built in Sudbury. The result was a new, larger Sick Kids built in Toronto and our kids still have to travel.

Southern Ontario does not support Northern Ontario. Each year, the mining royalties from Northern Ontario contribute more than $1 billion to Ontario’s coffers besides all of the regular taxes we contribute the same as southern Ontario.

Ed Poisson

Sudbury