Northwestern Ontario residents have been receiving promises from the five candidates vying for Premier Mike Harris's job. The most significant promise made by all the candidates, except one who is not a front-runner, is for a medical school at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay that is equal in status to the medical school planned for Laurentian University at Sudbury.
Politicians, and want-to-be politicians, in Thunder Bay are so convinced that medical school is coming to Lakehead University, they are scrapping over who should be given credit for a decision that has not yet been finalized by the government. They have been writing letters to the editor of local newspapers and granting interviews saying who should be credited.
Another promise that appears to have wide acceptance among the candidates is for a "scientific" examination on whether to reinstate the spring bear hunt in Ontario. The provincial government stopped the hunt in 1999 without consulting those in the north who were impacted by the decision.
