NDP campaign to stop Hydro One sale points to cheaper power in public systems

[Joe Shlabotnik]

The Ontario New Democrats are launching a province-wide campaign to stop the Liberal government’s plan for the partial sale of Hydro One.

NDP Leader Andrea Horwath said Monday Premier Kathleen Wynne has no mandate to sell off the publicly-owned transmission company.

“Kathleen Wynne didn’t campaign on this. She has no mandate to do this and she has no support from Ontarians for her wrong-headed privatization scheme,” she told reporters at Queen’s Park.

“She did not tell them that she was going to do this.”

Horwath said her third place party will give Ontarians every chance to be heard on the Liberal plan outlined in the budget to sell off 60 per cent of Hydro One by holding town halls across the province, getting petitions signed and encouraging communities to write to Liberal MPPs to voice their opposition.

“We will be doing everything we can to help Ontarians stop Kathleen Wynne because there is no going back on this. Once Hydro is gone, it’s gone and it’s Ontarian that will be paying the price,” she said, adding that the first town hall meeting will be held on May 7 on Brampton.

Horwath said when previous governments proposed this kind of sell off public backlash forced them to back down, including the former Ernie Eves Progressive Conservative government, which nixed plans to sell off of Hydro One in 2002.

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/04/27/ndp-campaign-to-stop-hydro-one-sale-cites-cheaper-power-in-public-systems.html


Have your say, sign the petition and tell Kathleen Wynne to fuck off.... oh wait I mean... and tell Kathleen Wynne Do Not sell Our Public Utility like a Harris-era Conservative!

http://youpaytheprice.ca/

[laundry_queen]

1. Such a dumb move

As an Albertan who remembers the before and after (and then living in BC which is like the 'before', and then moving back to the 'after' in Alberta) I can say this is a HUGE mistake. HUGEHUGEHUGE. If I was in Ontario, I'd be fighting this tooth and nail. Consumers will see huge increases in their bills if this happens. The poor and middle class subsidizing the rich CEOs yet again.