Comment 131

By Paul (registered) | Posted None at

What perhaps is missing in your argument, outside the invalid assumptions made regarding everyone opposing the deal, is perhaps people in Hamilton do not want more of what they have, but are trying to raise their standards and improve their community. You mention we have Highland packers, we also have a very dirty and polluted City and had to deal with Rothsay. We are already heavily saturated with roads yet we are forced to accept yet another expressway right through our largest greenspace in east Hamilton. One "megadeal" will not save the City. True their withdrawl was a blow to Hamilton strength but only because Hamilton did not do it first. The fictional extra jobs are just that fiction. There was no guarantee they would come, they never came to Brandon, and are we increasing our standards by raising a generation of pig butchers? It is a very hard job and we will lose many talented people forced into the field, and unable to continue with such a difficult career. The whole deal was built on supposition and possibilities while ignoring how much the company is grounded in greed and environmental devestation. Hamilton needs to push even harder and become a true steeltown. A steeltown not of grey polluted skies and harmful industry, but a steeltown strong in community and standards which protect Hamiltons interests in all aspects, economical, social,and environmental. Maple Leaf did not make the cut and so should have been left on the cutting room floor, not picked up and repackaged for consumption.

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