The Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) is today developing an anti-northerner policy over large areas. Roadside picnic tables, for example, have been removed and burnt. Other measures include: It wants to limit hunting and fishing by locals in many areas to preserve them for tourist operators and their clients. It wants to stop trapping in many areas. It wants to stop staking along and near rivers and shorelines. It wants to stop road building and prospect assessment work — no heavy equipment, no drilling, no blasting, for example, from May 10 to mid-September, or later, in large areas.
The bottom line of MNR’s policy is to keep Northern Ontario an undisturbed wilderness area for a few wealthy tourists to enjoy.
They put out report drafts and ask for comments, but locals, native organizations and mining people don’t hear of these reports, while there is a wide distribution to tourist operators and southern Ontario naturalist organizations. R.D.Burns President Sault Ste. Marie & District Prospectors Association, and Nanin Drum Local, Ontario Metis and Aboriginal Association
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