JaxDad wrote:
CaLBaR wrote:
John&Joey wrote:
JaxDad wrote:
Your house must be in Kaybek, the land of cheap Creelectric power.
If your house were in Ontario that bill would be a LOT higher.
LOL, you got so much hydro you sold it all to us at a discount. I'm paying .08kw
Yes our wonderful Premier and the liberal party have royally screwed us over here in Ontario and not only just on electricity. :M
Oh man, you drank the Kool-Aid didn’t you?
The old Ontario Hydro was broken up into OPG, Hydro One and the distribution was privatized, I.E. given to all the municipalities for free, but the debt, some nearl $20 BILLION worth, was given to the taxpayers of Ontario.
That was in 1995 under something called the ‘No Sense Revolution’ by some golf pro named Mike Harris.
Just since 2003 that debt has been reduced by almost $6 billion.
BTW, he’s the same guy that auctioned off all of the MTO’s trucks and equipment for pennies on the dollar then gave the new owners lucrative contracts to maintain our roads at a higher cost than what it used to cost the MTO to do it.
If you know anyone in the Muskoka area, ask them how that’s worked out for them. The private contractor up there just voluntarily GAVE UP the contract mid-term after complaints of slow shoddy service culminated in a wrongful death suit following a highway accident blamed on a lack of maintenance during a snow storm.
Want to guess why it’s not free to drive the 407 either? Yup, it’s a No Sense Revolution era user fee.
It’s also why your insurance company gets a bill from the fire dept if you have a house fire or auto accident. Yup, that’s a user fee too.
The old "privatization" game.
Tried that with the highway maintenance down here years ago.
Also a total failure.
