Lisa Raitt was the guest speaker at Kitcher Conestoga MP Harold Albrecht,s Big Tent Event. Spoke with Lisa at length after her speech. I began by asking her if she ever speaks to Greg Rickford,With a big smile Lisa assured me that she has often. Then still smileing warmly she asked why I would ask that.I said there was a road that needed to be built from Pickle Lake to the Ring of Fire,,had she ever heard of such a place?? With her eyes just dancing she assurred that she has.I said said we need some commitment to this. I told her I thought it would be good to have this well under way when Election is called it could be pointed out as another acheivement under there watch.Lisa agreed this would be great to be able to do.Lisa said the Ontario provincial government had some permits and agreements to get in place first.Lisa did say she was quite sure we would be happy with the spring budget.I said this was a long way out yet.Lisa,s concern was that the permits and agreements would be in place soon enough. In a passing comment Lisa said that ports were part of her portfolio, that maybe once the railroad was built we could just ship the chromite down to the port at Ste Saint Marie, Put it on a ore carrier, ship it of to China and be done with it.I said no, no, no, what about smelting it first and adding some value first.Lisa thought finished product, some of it could still go by ship.If smelter is right by the steel mill in the soo,,,,The steel and the chromite while it is still in a molten state could be mixed into the various grades of stainles steel. This would be another huge energy saving. And the jobs , lots of jobs !! This last part I did not think of when talking to Lisa!! What I did say to her was the patent that Frank Smeenk president of KWG has to use natual gas to smelt the ore for less than half the cost of electricty. This was extreemly Interesting to Lisa. She had not heard of this before.Lisa was really happy to find out about this.Also told Lisa about the chance meeting Frank Smeenk had with Prime Minister at a resturant in Toronto.Told Lisa the Prime Minister was keenly interested and was still asking questions and talking an hour later.This is after Frank had an agreement at the start for only a few moments of his time.I got the impression Lisa was going to talk to her boss on what his thoughts were about the Ring of Fire Lisa seemed excited about these two new pieces if information that I gave her !! Nothing definate but I feel warm and fuzzy about all this!!