From the Niagara Falls Review:
Donald Ziraldo envisions a day when North America becomes a borderless continent.
“Get rid of the border, that’s the simplest solution to me,” Ziraldo said during a three-hour roundtable discussion on the challenges facing Niagara’s tourism industry at Niagara College Wednesday. “We should follow the European Union model. Any of you worried about losing your Canadian identity – get over it. Ask an Italian or German if they lost their identity after the EU.”
Ziraldo was one of 14 speakers to address a group of tourism and hospitality students during the 311/42-hour session, aimed at finding solutions to the problems which have plagued the industry since the beginning of the new millennium.
While the session, moderated by Niagara College president Dan Patterson, was intended to give students an insiders’ view of the industry they plan to enter, the session also gave panelists a chance to be brutally honest about the problems facing tourism in Niagara and much of Canada in 2007.