{"id":8806,"date":"2017-12-14T18:19:47","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T23:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=8806"},"modified":"2017-12-14T18:21:58","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T23:21:58","slug":"wynne-liberals-vote-against-ndp-bill-to-end-gasoline-price-gouging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/14\/wynne-liberals-vote-against-ndp-bill-to-end-gasoline-price-gouging\/","title":{"rendered":"Wynne Liberals vote against NDP bill to end gasoline price gouging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Dec 14, 2017 @ 18:19<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n<p>On Thursday, NDP MPP Gilles Bisson said that Kathleen Wynne has once again let down families by voting against NDP legislation to combat gasoline price gauging.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, the Wynne Liberals had a choice\u2014to do the right thing and regulate the price of gasoline or continue to let families be gauged by gas companies and refiners,\u201d said Bisson. \u201cIt\u2019s disappointing that they chose to let families down once again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Fairness in Petroleum Products Pricing Act <\/em>sought to allow the Ontario Energy Board to regulate the retail and wholesale mark-up of petroleum products in the province. The Bill also guided the Ontario Energy Board and Lieutenant Governor in Council to provide predictable and consistent retail pricing of petroleum products; prevent pricing practices that undermine competitiveness in the retail market and ensure transparency in the prices of petroleum products.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOntario families living from Windsor to Thunder Bay should expect a reasonable price for gas at the pumps,\u201d said Bisson. \u201cInstead, we see huge price fluctuations throughout the province. Without the government stepping in to regulate the price of gas, families will continue to be gouged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t need to be this way,\u201d said Bisson. \u201cNew Democrats will continue to put forward solutions to stop families from being exploited at the pumps.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"grammarly-disable-indicator\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dec 14, 2017 @ 18:19 On Thursday, NDP MPP Gilles Bisson said that Kathleen Wynne has once again let down families by voting against NDP legislation to combat gasoline price gauging. \u201cToday, the Wynne Liberals had a choice\u2014to do the right thing and regulate the price of gasoline or continue to let families be gauged &#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":[317],"class_list":["post-8806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-provincial","tag-gas-prices"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-16 13:11:49","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\/8806","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=8806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8807,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8806\/revisions\/8807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}