SUPERIOR NORTH – For the first time in nearly three years, delegates from municipalities across Ontario are gathering in Ottawa this week for the Association of Municipalities in Ontario conference.
Terrace Bay's Mayor Jody Davis is interested in how the provincial government will deal with the issues at hand.
“We’ve had a couple of delegations [Monday] and we are having two more [Tuesday},” Davis said in an interview with CFNO.
Davis said the meetings were well received.
“I was involved in some delegation meetings, NOMA, and the Thunder Bay District Services Board, so my general feeling of the new Conservative government is that they are willing to listen.”
Prior to Monday’s meetings, the Marathon delegation met with Ontario's Northern Development Minister on Sunday.
Mayor Rick Dumas wanted to ask MPP Greg Rickford questions about a couple of key projects.
“Rickford was talking about the port authority in partnership with BN, talking about that and moving forward to the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund to looking at models of funding and getting that approved and up to speed and make sure that everything is good to accept freight boats coming in from the Great Lakes, maybe even expanding the dock system to go into the salty boats, which is going across over to the European market.”
Dumas says Rickford was also supportive of Generation Mining's proposed copper-palladium mine to be developed near the Marathon Airport.
The AMO Conference wraps up Wednesday afternoon.
-With files from Al Cresswell
