The leader of the Northern Ontario Party, Trevor Holliday says the results of the U.S. election has "energized and reassured" his party. which seeks separation from southern Ontario.
Holliday says it shows, "that Northern Ontarians are not the only ones fed up with the ideology of the cookie cutter politician. Now a bred or molded politician is a thing of the past as we have said in our statement earlier this year."
Holliday says the party is looking forward to Northern Ontarians going to the polls in 2018 and "joining the world-wide push for real people who are not the bred politicians and rewriting what has been skewed by big party politics. It is our turn to join the movement and push back against the policies and the establishment that has been put in place to strangle and desolate and isolate our beautiful and valuable North.
"It's the idea that people are voting on what they feel needs to be done for change," Holliday tells BayToday. "In no way does our party support his ideology or what he stands for or what his plans are, it's the whole idea of people uniting to say we've had enough with the mainstream politics."
Holliday has toured the north extensively in the past few weeks and says he feels the same movement.
"Everywhere I go, people have had enough of the big party mind frame of, 'this is the way it's always been done, this is the way it will continue to happen. People want a change"
Holliday says Northerners have seen a poor track record from Queens park as well as the Ministry of Northern Development and Mines along with "the majority of the MPPS who were voted in to better and grow the North, in return, only sit on their hands and fatten their wallets. Enough is Enough with the empty promises.
"The Northern Ontario Party is the only party that has policies to ensure resources are manufactured here and not being manufactured elsewhere. Ensuring we benefit from our resources. The NOP is the party of the people, for the people and by the people. We want to ensure a strong and prosperous future of Northern Ontarians first and foremost without making empty promises, but produce results when Northerners vote for a change."
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Meanwhile, Holliday slammed Premier Kathleen Wynne's statement that she is concerned about Ontario's economy since Trump was elected as President.
"If she is so concerned about the economy she would not start the destruction with the cap and trade tax and carbon taxes she has launched. The only economy Trumping that is or will happen in the near future is her over-taxation."