The provincial government is getting an earful for its decision not to hold committee hearings in northern Ontario on its new forest tenure legislation.
Scott Jackson of the Ontario Forest Industries Association says the McGuinty government doesn't seem interested in the opinions of northern Ontario.
"The only way we can read this is that once again the current administration doesn't believe that the voice of northern or rural Ontario counts," says Jackson. "This is about fast-tracking a piece of legislation without any due consideration with what the impacts are going to be."
The O.F.I.A. had tentatively agreed to support the Bill, but has since come out against it.
