Be afraid: The brains behind Ontario's energy disaster are now advising PM

Locutus

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Phasing out coal, a feverish pursuit of green energy, new tax regimes — where have we heard all this before?

It is uncontroversial to call Ontario's energy situation a disaster. As Premier Kathleen Wynne has herself conceded: Ontarians are now having to "choose between paying the electricity bill and buying food or paying rent."

Wynne's polling numbers suggest that most Ontarians know where to square the blame, with a pitiful 15 per cent approval rating and 58 per cent of the electorate believing she should resign.

However, Wynne alone shouldn't bear the burden for the fact that hydro bills for the average consumer have skyrocketed over recent years; it was former premier Dalton McGuinty and his Liberal team from 2003 to 2012 — including his former principal secretary and "policy guru" Gerald Butts — who set Ontario on this financially bleak, dead-end road. And now, Butts is headed on the same path, leading not the premier, but the prime minister, on the way down.

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Be afraid: The brains behind Ontario's energy disaster are now advising PM - CBC News | Opinion
 
Danbones

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In 1906, electricity in Ontario became publicly owned and produced. Rates dropped by more than half.
Sadly, after generations enjoyed affordable electricity in Ontario, governments have been privatizing power. The result?

Today, $1.5 Billion is taken out of Ontario's economy by private power every year, and rates have skyrocketed.

Before deregulation, the money now funneled into profits went out to businesses and citizens in the form of low and stable rates provided by Ontario Hydro and municipal electric commissions. Business and industry prospered with the competitive advantage of "power at cost," providing millions of good jobs for nearly a century.
What happened, and how did Ontarians end up paying twice what businesses and citizens do in Manitoba and Quebec?

It began with Mike Harris. In 1998, without a hint of irony, his Conservative government undid what Sir Adam Beck worked so hard to create. They passed legislation to deregulate Ontario's public power.
Leaders ignore real reasons for high Hydro rates

investigate deeper
it began with mike harris the CONservative.
elitism - privatization, is "buy" partisan, and should be quite criminal really
 
taxslave

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The trouble with :power at cost" is when political ideologues take control as happened in BC in the 1990s is that power costs were kept low to buy votes with nothing put in the bank to do maintenance and replacement. Now 16 years later we are still playing catch up.
 
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