Old Libranos never die – they just slither into the greenery;
A U.S. wind power developer that is seeking $653-million in damages under a NAFTA challenge accuses the government of Ontario of manipulating Green Energy Act rules to benefit the interests of Liberal-connected firms, according to court documents obtained by the National Post. […]
The Mesa Power document also claims that NextEra “had direct access to the Premier’s Office.” It says that NextEra met with former McGuinty aides Jamison Steeve and Sean Mullin in October, 2010. Both men would later be involved in the negotiations surrounding the cancellation of gas-plants in the greater Toronto area and the payments to the affected firms.
Opposition critics of the Green Energy Act have long contended that the governing Liberals used explosive growth in renewable energy since 2009 to steer contracts toward favoured firms and Liberal insiders. Various companies have also taken the government to court over the frequent changes to the Feed-in-Tariff program, but the government has maintained that it is allowed to make policy changes even if they negatively impact green-energy investors. Ontario also lost a WTO ruling that found the “domestic content” requirements in the Green Energy Act discriminated against foreign-owned firms and were a violation of trade agreements.
From the comments – “Should be easy enough to investigate as the OPP are already at the campaign headquarters.”
Pretty neat how the Ontario Libranos padded their buddies pockets and left the federal government to answer the NAFTA charges…
Does Canada have anything like the US RICO Act?
(Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act)
Syncrodox has a point. Whatever the difficulties we may have with the other side, Canada has its own problems in meeting international agreements. The federal government may negotiate a trade treaty, but it cannot bind the provinces in areas of their jurisdiction.
RD – “Does Canada have anything like the US RICO Act?”
If we did have RICO the suspects would still be safe in their comfy hideout – their union buddies in the OPP are busy shredding the paper trail and their appointees on the bench are blind to Librano scandal – the corruption runs deep in Onterrible, so much so that I doubt its political system can ever be properly cleansed. The corruption of the Librano-public unions-influence brokered cronyism triumvirate will make extortion and theft a core part of the political culture of the province – Ont, will become ethically retarded for a generation or more, the remaining private sector will become corrupt/crony to adapt. It doesn’t take arrant kleptocrats long to defile the responsible function of a political system – but the McChimpy crime family did it in record time, even managing to tank the economy and subvert the police function to a political stasi in less than 3 terms.
If the Librano crime syndicate is returned to power next week the province will not be a fit place to live for generations. It will become a rustbelt banana republic replete with all the corrupt trappings, crumbling infrastructure and perversity of political privilege of Cuba. I suspect not only will there be a diaspora of working age refugees fleeing this dystopia but retirement age folks as well. Several of my friends and acquaintances in the province see it as becoming a bad place for retirement – eroding health care, stagflation and heavy taxing of a bankrupt province will deplete personal savings and pensions quickly – there are jurisdictions more friendly to fixed income senior living.
The coming election is the most important in Ontario history (for private sector workers) yet it has been turned into a zombie sideshow by a Union and MSM disinfo tidal wave. I wish the people of Ontario luck in ridding their province of a life sucking parasite but I’m not optimistic.
I think the heading on the CLA blog tells it well.
http://canadianlandowneralliance.blogspot.ca/2014/06/when-whores-get-too-old.html
Yepper!
Yeah, precisely mine own sentiment.