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Article: Rethinking Northern Ontario! Northern Ontario Forestry: without radical change we shall destroy our birthright.(NEWS)
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- Northern Ontario Business
- Article date:
- October 1, 2007
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In this our third edition of "Rethinking Northern Ontario" we zero in on Forestry. We have so many riches and yet we are trapped in a commodity infrastructure that leaves us vulnerable and exposed to currency fluctuations, and price pressures that are rapidly making us uncompetitive. Our primary response is to artificially cap energy prices, which is only one of the inputs. This might be a reasonable short-term strategy, but it is not sustainable over the long haul. We need to rethink what we do.
Despite the ongoing travails of the forestry crisis, there is one unavoidable fact about the future of Northern Ontario: it will continue to feature wood. A large ...