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NOP: comment shows "utter disrespect" for the north. Demands apology

'We are just seen as a nuisance with no value'
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NOP leader Trevor Holliday. Supplied.

Northern Ontario Party leader Trevor Holliday has jumped on the 'no man's land' comment in the legislature by Northumberland-Quinte West Liberal MPP Lou Rinaldi.

See: Do we live in 'No man's land?'

Holliday is demanding the immediate resignation Rinaldi and an apology from Premier Kathleen Wynne over the remarks that refers to Northern Ontario as No Mans Land.

"This comment made by Lou Rinaldi is an insult not only to our nearly eight hundred thousand residents that call Northern Ontario home, but also shows the lack of respect to Our First Nations who had many traditional lands stripped from them when the province was first being formed," said Holliday in a news release.

Holliday added, "This just shows the Wynne government's total and utter disrespect for the North. At Queens Park, we are just seen as a nuisance with no value other than a place to dump their nuclear waste, allow other countries to put up  wind turbines with ridiculous contracts, or a place to reap the natural resources without having to return the investment. Ms. Wynne, the North, and the Northern Ontario Party will no longer sit idly by while you and your Government treat us like second class citizens., Do the right thing Kathleen ask for the resignation of Northumberland-Quinte West Liberal MPP Lou Rinaldi and issue an apology."