Tomorow night on #YourAgenda, we’re going to dive into the recently released "Proposed Growth Plan for Northern Ontario."

Michael Gravelle, Ontario’s Minister of Northern Development and Mines and Liberal MPP for Thunder Bay-Superior North, will be joining us off the top of the program to walk us through the details of the plan.

Gravelle will then cross the floor with Steve and join: Randy Hillier, PC MPP representing Lanark, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington; Gilles Bisson, NDP MPP for Timmins-James Bay; and David Robinson, Associate Professor of Economics at Laurentian University.

If you aren’t up to speed on the plan, here’s a link to the Ontario Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure website where you’ll find a link to the report in its entirety. And here’s a link to an article from The Toronto Star, when the plan was unveiled.

What are your thoughts on the plan?

Northern Ontario is certainly an interesting place. It "contains 90 per cent of the province's land mass" but as home to more than 800,000 Ontarians, makes up less than 7 per cent of its population. However, the north is home to 40 per cent of Ontario's Aboriginal population.

Last year I hit the road with The Agenda team and got to visit Thunder Bay and Sault Ste. Marie, two of northern Ontario’s larger cities. It was an opportunity to go somewhere I wouldn’t normally think about visiting, and I saw firsthand how passionate the people are about their communities.

What do you think: how does the Northern Ontario economy need to change? How can Northern Ontario attract people to come live in its cities? What role do health care, energy and digital media have to play in the “new” northern economy? Or do plans like this just push resources into delaying an inevitable decline?

I’d love to read your thoughts, and get them on air. If you’d like to share them with me on Twitter, here’s where you can find me, and my co-producer Mike Miner.