‘The NDP did screw up last time but hopefully they learned their lesson”
To the Expositor:
Ever since the government deregulated hydro (that’s when Mike Harris’ Conservative government was in power), rates have been steadily going up but now it’s getting worse because Hydro One is selling our power to the United States at a cheaper rate—two cents a kilowatt hour (that’s what I heard from one of the MPs), but we’re paying eight cents a kilowatt hour. Sounds to me like we’re picking up the tab for the United States’ usage when they should be paying 10 cents per kilowatt of our hydro. This would substantially bring down our hydro bills.
It’s the companies and corporations who are buying our hydro and we’re paying sky high hydro bills, but we’re being told that there is not enough power to sustain us and then putting the windmills all over Northern Ontario, but all the power is going to southern Ontario because all the power is going to the United States. Ontario is the only province that has this problem and that’s what I have heard because Hydro One has to be regulated again and it can be done if citizens take the time to write their MPs and start demanding this.
Hydro One is supposed to be a Crown corporation and the government has the power to do this and if there is an election this summer citizens have to try and put the NDP in power again. They did screw up last time and hopefully they learned their lesson. Myself, I did screw up in life but I learned from it. Now I am very prudent on what I do and citizens have been giving a lot of chances to the Liberals or Conservatives, and for what? Things are just getting worse. They only listen to corporations or industrial companies because to them you’re just a second class citizen.
Ron Osawabine
Wikwemikong
