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**Exhibit 31.1**

CERTIFICATION

I, _John L. Threshie Jr., certify that: 

(1) I have reviewed this Form 10-KSB of The Tirex Corporation; 

(2) Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain anyuntrue statement of a material fact or omit to state material fact necessary tomake the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which suchstatements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by thisreport; 

(3) Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financialinformation included in this report, fairly present in all material respects thefinancial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the small businessissuer of, and for, the periods presented in this report; 

(4) The small business issuer's other certifying officer(s)and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls andprocedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) andinternal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the small business issuer and have: 

(a) Designed such disclosure controlsand procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designedunder our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the smallbusiness issuer, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us byothers within those entities, particularly during the period in which thisreport is being prepared; 

(b) Designed such internal controlover financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financialreporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assuranceregarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation offinancial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally acceptedaccounting principles; 

(c) Evaluated the effectiveness ofthe small business issuer's disclosure controls and procedures and presented inthis report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controlsand procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on suchevaluation; and 

(d) Disclosed in this report anychange in the small business issuer's internal control over financial reportingthat occurred during the small business issuer's most recent fiscal quarter (thesmall business issuer's fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report)that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, thesmall business issuer's internal control over financial reporting; and 

(5) The small business issuer's other certifying officer(s)and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal controlover financial reporting, to the small business issuer's auditors and the auditcommittee of the small business issuer's board of directors (or personsperforming the equivalent functions): 

(a) All significant deficiencies andmaterial weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control overfinancial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the smallbusiness issuer's ability to record, process, summarize and report financialinformation; and 

(b) Any fraud, whether or not material, that involvesmanagement or other employees who have a significant role in the small businessissuer's internal control over financial reporting.  

/s/ John L. Threshie Jr._______ John L. Threshie Jr., CEO 

Date: October 14, 2008 

 

 

 

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