A vision for a better, brighter and stronger Ontario.

That’s what Progressive Conservative Party Leadership candidate Caroline Mulroney was presenting to local supporters in North Bay this morning (Monday).

She says she wants to represent the people of Ontario and that includes the north, which she says has been long forgotten at Queen’s Park.

“There’s a lot of work to make sure I meet as many people as I can, there are a lot of interests that need to be represented within the north so I’m trying to introduce myself and get to know as many people here as I can, because I want to represent those issues,” she says.

Mulroney says the number one concern she’s hearing from northerners is that they want to be heard.

In terms of announcements, she says doubling Northern Ontario Heritage funding will help give northeners the opportunity to draw on the funds needed to invest in their communities.

“Because they love living here, they want to be able to build the lives that they want, through building the jobs that they need here so we need to be able to support that,” she says.

With NOHFC, Mulroney says she wants to change the eligibility requirements and look at other ways to make it easier to access the funds.

Meantime, she also says she’s the only leadership candidate that is already running for a seat at Queen’s Park, having decided last year that she wanted to defeat the Liberals.

The other three leadership candidates include former Whitby-Oshawa MPP Christine Elliot, former Toronto city councillor Doug Ford and social conservative advocate Tanya Granic Allen.

PC members have until 8 pm Wednesday to register to vote and until noon on Friday to cast their ballots online.

The results will be announced March 10th.

With Files from BayToday.ca
Photo by Chris Dawson.

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