https://www.baytoday.ca/local-news/local-businesses-turn-to-minister-to-cut-red-tape-to-stimulate-job-creation-1081361
“When you look of Queen’s Park, all you see are cranes, and building and people working. They’re tripping over each other to hire people, yet here it is completely different. They need to see this in Queen’s Park that we’ve lost population here, and we have closed storefronts. So it is all about the creation of northern jobs.”
Fedeli says it will take giving business the tools they need.
“By lowering their taxes, by lowering the requirements, by cutting red tape. Look at the Ring of Fire. The one company took two years just to get an environmental assessment approval, to do an environmental assessment. It should have taken 45 days. Two years to get the right to be able to spend millions of dollars, and the next four years doing the real assessment. That’s the kind of nonsense the companies were going through that made us fall from the number one mining jurisdiction in the world to number 28.”