The Chamber of Commerce says there’s more than just 40 jobs leaving with the Ontario Power Generation announcement this week.

Treasurer Jake Lacourse says it’s 40 families too.

Plus, the local housing market will be impacted.

Lacourse believes there’s an opportunity to save the jobs before they’re gone, like the proposed divestiture at Ontario Northland that was stopped.

He also points out when worked leaked last week about the jobs leaving, they attempted to find out if those rumours were true but they couldn’t get confirmation until Monday.

On Monday, OPG said it was important to speak directly to the employees first.