It is letter writing season again!

It is Christmas letter writing season again. Both John Rafferty and Sarah Campbell have sent out letters to all of their constituents wishing them a wonderful holiday season and showing how active that they have been in their ridings. They have also addressed another letter to Santa. Both are again looking for Santa’s intervention on behalf of the Resolute mill in Fort Frances.
Losing over 200 jobs on your watch is not an enviable record to run again on and Sarah is already feeling the heat of a looming provincial election in 2013.
They are being joined by Mayor Roy Avis and his council along with the other councils in the district of Rainy River. All fear the loss of jobs, the movement of people from the district, declining school enrollments and the loss of taxes.
Closer to home the tax payers of Fort Frances are asking for supreme intervention from on Santa that will see 0 tax increases in 2013 and no loss of revenue from the reassessment of Resolute.
Santa has some big requests to fill this Christmas.
There are lots of places that Santa can leave lumps of coal. He can leave a big lump in the Chief Justice of Ontario who believes that Fort Frances doesn’t need a permanent judge. He will need a whole sleigh full of coal for all the members of the McGinty government that managed to create dissention with the public and secondary teachers and waste one billion dollars in a tight economy by cancelling gas energy plants to win an election.
Peter McKay also should get a stocking full of coal or at least a stocking filled with all the BS that has been shoveled over the F35. Nobody anywhere in the world knows what that jet fighter will cost and even if it will ever fly. It might be the best fighter on paper, but paper airplanes have never had any long term success flying.
The doctor recruitment team will be asking Santa to help them find several doctors to begin practicing medicine in Fort Frances.
In those letters from district councils, is a request to see both Rainy River Resources and Osisko successfully navigate their way through the federal and provincial environmental process in 2013 to begin the actual construction of those two mines in 2014.
And together we all wish for the health of our families, the safety of our children and the joy that the holiday season can bring that will last throughout 2013.
–Jim Cumming,
Publisher