{"id":8388,"date":"2017-11-30T08:40:58","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T13:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=8388"},"modified":"2017-11-30T08:42:51","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T13:42:51","slug":"conservatives-liberals-now-in-lock-step-on-hydro-privatization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/30\/conservatives-liberals-now-in-lock-step-on-hydro-privatization\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservatives, Liberals now in lock-step on hydro privatization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Nov 30, 2017 @ 08:40<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n<p>On Wednesday, Patrick Brown\u2019s Conservatives and Kathleen Wynne\u2019s Liberals joined together to support Wynne\u2019s hydro privatization, voting against a motion from NDP Leader Andrea Horwath to start undoing the damage of privatization.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s troubling to people that Patrick Brown has decided to back Kathleen Wynne\u2019s privatization scheme,\u201d said Horwath. \u201cWith a privatized Hydro One, we have sky-high and rising hydro bills, multi-million-dollar executive salaries, time-of-use billing and, now, a proposal to install pre-pay meters. It\u2019s clear that Ontarians are no longer the priority in our hydro system \u2013 they\u2019re just a cash-cow. That\u2019s unacceptable to me, and I don\u2019t know why Kathleen Wynne and Patrick Brown are defending it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Horwath\u2019s motion would have triggered a critical part of the NDP hydro plan \u2013 using the dividends from Hydro One to begin bringing the shares back into public hands.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not too late,\u201d said Horwath. \u201cThere is a way to reverse this privatization, undo the damage and take Ontario in a better direction. We can give families hope that hydro bills will go down and stay down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to bringing Hydro One back into public ownership, Horwath\u2019s plan ends mandatory time-of-use pricing; bans unfair rural, remote and First Nations delivery rates; and aggressively seeks to end bad contracts. In total, the plan is expected to lower hydro bills by about 30 per cent.<\/p>\n<div class=\"grammarly-disable-indicator\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nov 30, 2017 @ 08:40 On Wednesday, Patrick Brown\u2019s Conservatives and Kathleen Wynne\u2019s Liberals joined together to support Wynne\u2019s hydro privatization, voting against a motion from NDP Leader Andrea Horwath to start undoing the damage of privatization. &nbsp; \u201cIt\u2019s troubling to people that Patrick Brown has decided to back Kathleen Wynne\u2019s privatization scheme,\u201d said Horwath. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[463],"class_list":["post-8388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-provincial","tag-hydro-costs"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-30 04:04:57","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\/8388","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8389,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8388\/revisions\/8389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}