“We owe it to the people of Elliot Lake”

Premier McGuinty has made an appeal to rescuers to keep trying to find and save one person and perhaps two still trapped in the rubble of the Algo Mall in Elliot Lake. The Premier made his feelings clear last night when the local MPP called him and then in a news conference. He said Ontario owes it to the families to “leave no stone unturned.” The Premier also said that he will not being going to Elliot Lake at this time, adding that if he thought his presence would help in the rescue he would go, but but he does not think it would assist for him to be there. “I have spoken to Emergency Management Ontario and the Heavy Urban Search and Rescue Team and have instructed them to determine if there is any other way possible to reach any victims without endangering our rescuers, including the use of equipment to dismantle the building from the exterior,” McGuinty said in a statement Monday night. “I believe we owe it to the families waiting for word of their loved ones to leave no stone unturned. We owe that to the people of Elliot Lake too. Ontarians expect nothing less.”  See post below.  CBC.ca on this appeal.