{"id":7214,"date":"2017-10-23T08:15:46","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T12:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=7214"},"modified":"2019-05-27T09:19:54","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T13:19:54","slug":"news-from-the-park-october-23rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/23\/news-from-the-park-october-23rd\/","title":{"rendered":"News from the Park – October 23rd"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oct 23, 2017 @ 08:15<\/b><\/p>\n

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\"\"Well, clearly I did not go to the same elementary and secondary schools that Kathleen Wynne and Energy Minister Glen Thibeault went to. For that matter, it\u2019s clear that Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk didn\u2019t go to the same school as Wynne and Thibeault either. And I get the funny feeling that, while Conservative Leader Patrick Brown probably didn\u2019t go to school with Wynne and Thibeault, he must have used the same math textbook. What makes me say this, you ask? I make this observation because only in the math textbook used by those three politicians does it explain how to make a $40 billion debt actually appear as an asset in one\u2019s accounting ledgers.\u00a0 A friend of mine said that she wishes she had studied math from Wynne\u2019s and Thibeault\u2019s books. That way with all the debt she\u2019s has accumulated she\u2019d be a millionaire now. All I can say is thank heaven that Bonnie Lysyk paid attention in class and didn\u2019t use the Liberal math textbook.\u00a0 After studying the government\u2019s creative accounting she was able to see through the smoke and mirrors that were used.<\/p>\n

You can\u2019t help but have heard how Auditor Lysyk revealed in her report that Kathleen Wynne has hatched a hydro scheme that will end up costing the people of Ontario an extra $4 billion dollars in interest charges. That\u2019s just not right. Because of ill-conceived Liberal energy strategies, hard-working families, seniors and small business operators can\u2019t afford to pay their hydro bills \u2013 where we happen to be the highest rates in all of Canada. As a result, all of Ontario is suffering.<\/p>\n

In the Auditor General\u2019s damning report on the government, she pointed out that the Liberal\u2019s hydro scheme will cost Ontarians $40 billion, and part of the plan is to have families pay $4 billion extra for borrowing tricks to hide how bad the plan is.\u00a0 New Democrats have been ringing the alarm bell on this for months now, and Lysyk\u2019s report confirms our claims.<\/p>\n

Would you make a cash advance on your MasterCard <\/em>and pay high-interest rates just to pay down your debt on your Visa<\/em> so you could have slightly lower minimum payments on that account? We all know what a horrendous nightmare such actions lead to down the road. Wynne and Thibeault told the Legislature that this is a legitimate strategy to use to make Ontarian\u2019s electrical bills more affordable\u2026. At least for the time being while she is in office. And Thibeault added that the proof that it\u2019s okay to do this is that this has been the Liberal practice for years.\u00a0 This is not accounting genius at work, it\u2019s just political smoke and mirrors.<\/p>\n

Suddenly some Ontarians are now throwing their hands up in despair believing Ontario will need to look to Patrick Brown and his Conservatives to straighten this mess out. They need to think again. Patrick Brown and the Conservatives have been dancing around this issue \u2013 like every other Conservative policy issue. But this week, Conservative MPP Todd Smith made it clear, in no uncertain terms, that a Conservative government would keep Ontario moving down the disastrous path laid out by Kathleen Wynne. When asked what Conservative policies are, Patrick Brown keeps telling Ontarians to just wait \u2013 they\u2019re coming.\u00a0 Their plans have always been to privatize Hydro One<\/em> as well as<\/em><\/strong> Ontario Power Generation<\/em>.\u00a0 Clearly, they don\u2019t have a better plan, so they will just willfully follow mindlessly along the path laid out by Wynne.<\/p>\n

Kathleen Wynne\u2019s ongoing privatization of Hydro One has left Ontario hydro users facing another huge rate increase, at the same time as Hydro One executives and investors take home massive pay and profits. Last week, the Ontario Energy Board<\/em> released a preliminary decision on Hydro One\u2019s transmission rate increase. The OEB gave Hydro One nearly everything it asked for, and we remain on track for a huge jump in transmission rates next year. Last year, the CEO of the privatized Hydro One<\/em> collected six times the salary of the previous CEO. Does the Premier think ratepayers should feel grateful that the OEB trimmed back this sort of executive greed by a mere 3.5 percent? When will the premier finally admit that her private sector discipline means only more private profits for her private sector friends?<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t have to be this way. Ontarians need a plan that will give them hope that things will get better. New Democrats have laid out a better way to lower hydro bill prices and keep them down<\/u><\/strong>. The NDP has a plan that will return Hydro One to public hands and to regain control over skyrocketing hydro prices. Our plan will put Ontario families first by lowering hydro bills permanently and eliminating unfair Time-of-Use<\/em> billing practices.\u00a0New Democrats understand what Ontario families are dealing with. And we know we can make life better. For further information on our plan visit our website at http:\/\/www.ontariondp.ca\/hydro<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oct 23, 2017 @ 08:15 Well, clearly I did not go to the same elementary and secondary schools that Kathleen Wynne and Energy Minister Glen Thibeault went to. For that matter, it\u2019s clear that Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk didn\u2019t go to the same school as Wynne and Thibeault either. And I get the funny feeling …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":4519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[138],"class_list":["post-7214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-michael-mantha"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-27 16:15:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7215,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7214\/revisions\/7215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}