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Letter: Electing the wrong mayor will lead to a dismal future

Do your research before heading to the ballots in October
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Reader Tony Sottile is urging Sudburians to do their research before heading to the polls for this October's municipal election. (File)

Eleven candidates are running for mayor of the City of Greater Sudbury.

Most are involved because they do not agree with the achievements, of the past four years, by the present council, to develop an Entertainment Centre and new Casino on The Kingsway.

These are the same pessimists who opposed the ferrochrome plant planned for the Coniston site that would have created thousands of jobs for the immediate area — jobs that Sudbury desperately needs.

We have become a community of seniors, mostly retirees, from Vale that once employed more than 22,000 employees at Inco and Vale-Inco.

Two of these cynical people are appealing the decisions made by our hardworking council to cancel all the decisions our council has planned for the future of our city. These people are creating an atmosphere of gloom and doom for our community.

They are foreboding and fatalist about Sudbury in the 21st Century. If they were around when Mond Nickel discovered and developed nickel more than 100 years ago, Sudbury would not exist today.

Yes, maintenance of present civic services and infrastructure capital projects is urged. At the same time, if we do not invest in the future, as some mayors in the past have not done, we will be left behind as a community with a dismal future. 

Corporations will look elsewhere to invest. They will not invest in a city that that creates an atmosphere of bleak and gloomy cynicism.

Studies have shown that happier and more positive people are better liked, more sought out as friends and regarded as more energetic, more resilient and more creative. Optimistic leaders are perceived to be more effective. Happier people are even judged to be more likely to be successful in their future endeavours.

Researching all the information in the local media, the only two candidates that have impressed me with enthusiasm and optimism for the future of our community are candidates Cody Cacciotti and the present Mayor Brian Bigger.

Let’s consider and contemplate these two candidates when voting in our municipal election in October, for the future of the Greater Sudbury Area.

Tony Sottile
Sudbury