From the Niagara Falls Review:
City councillors are putting the pressure on provincial candidates, with an election looming, to secure the long-term future of Casino Niagara. But Liberal MPP Kim Craitor, Conservative challenger Bart Maves and local NDP president Sharon Shearing say the issue has been settled – it should stay open.
“Nobody has ever talked, at Queen’s Park, about closing Casino Niagara,” said Craitor, a member of the Liberal government since 2003.
On Monday, Coun. Jim Diodati brought up a four-year-old Review article in which Dalton McGuinty, then Ontario’s Opposition leader, said a Liberal government would keep Casino Niagara open permanently. City council asked the premier to repeat that pledge now that the government is into lease negotiations with the owner of the casino building.