Ontario’s unofficial government elect-already at work

The ballot counting machines have barely powered down but that’s not stopping the third straight Ford majority government from getting right to work.   

Nipissing MPP-elect Vic Fedeli, Ontario’s Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade Minister was off to Toronto Friday for interprovincial trade talks with his counterparts across the country, and the federal government.  

U.S. tariffs were one of several dominant themes on the campaign trail.  

“All we can do is make sure that we work hard on interprovincial trade, work hard at replacing things that we buy in the United States with things made in Canada, hopefully made in Ontario,” Fedeli says. “Just keep doing what we did last year when we brought 137 companies from around the world into Ontario.  We just need more of that.”  

Another issue was affordability and residents dealing with the rising cost of living. 

“I heard you loud and clear at the door and we’ll fight to do everything we can to lower your cost of living, like the gas tax,” he says. “I will this message back to Queen’s Park, this is what I heard at the door, and I think it’s important that we continue to do that.”  

Fedeli is thanking the people of Nipissing for their support in re-electing him to a fifth straight term as MPP.   

The election results are still unofficial until certified by Elections Ontario.