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Ford Country

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What the Doug Ford Government means for the Energy Sector – the great unwynnding;

“Premier Doug Ford ran and won on a platform labeled For the People: A Plan for Ontario. The platform set out Ford’s energy plan, in its entirety, as follows:

 

• Clean up the Hydro Mess and fire the board of Hydro One and its $6-million-dollar CEO.

 

• Our first act will be to end the Liberal practice of making millionaires from your hydro bills!

 

• Stop sweetheart deals by scrapping the Green Energy Act.

 

• Cut hydro rates by 12% for families, farmers, and small businesses by:

 

• Returning Hydro One dividend payments to families.

 

• Stopping the Liberal practice of burying the price tag for conservation programs in your hydro bills and instead pay for these programs out of general government revenue.

 

• Cancel energy contracts that are in the pre-construction phase and re-negotiate other energy contracts.

 

• Declare a moratorium on new energy contracts.

 

• Eliminate enormous salaries at Ontario Power Generation and Hydro One.

h/t raid

Fewer Pavilions At Fordfest

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Hitting the ground  running;

Blaming Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government for creating “a mess,” Premier Doug Ford’s new Progressive Conservative administration is withdrawing Ontario’s co-operation with Ottawa on resettling asylum seekers, the Star has learned.

 

Ontario Children, Community and Social Services Minister Lisa MacLeod told federal Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen that Queen’s Park is stepping back from the migration crisis. […]

 

That could sound the death knell for the Canada-Ontario Immigration Agreement signed by former premier Kathleen Wynne last November.

You don’t say.

Wynneing!

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WUT?

Kathleen Wynne on Saturday acknowledged that she will no longer be premier after the June 7 election and encouraged voters to elect Liberal candidates to prevent the NDP or PCs from securing a majority.

 

“Even though I won’t be leading this province as premier, I care deeply about how it will be led,” the Liberal leader said during a campaign stop in Toronto.

 

“People want change, but by and large they’re confident about where Ontario stands and where Ontario is headed. For this reason, many voters are worried about handing a blank cheque to either Doug Ford or the NDP,” she continued.

Oh.

What Would We Do Without Pollsters?

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From the comments;

The latest Ontario polls show … confusion?
EKOS reports a dead heat.
Innovative Research shows a 5 point PC lead.
Forum alleges a 14 point NDP lead, with the Liberals half of what’s reported in the other two polls.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_general_election,_2018

We need to ask at this point — do these pollsters do their surveys on the same planet? Or do they make them up as they go along?

Wynneing!

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http://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/goldstein-auditor-general-shatters-the-fiscal-fantasy

Lysyk said Wynne’s budget underestimates government deficits for the next three years by $16.6 billion, or 84 per cent, for two reasons.

 

First, it fails to reflect the true cost of its scheme to temporarily reduce electricity rates, known as the Fair Hydro Plan.

 

Second, the government improperly treated surpluses in the Ontario teacher and civil service pension plans as assets, since it can’t access that money without union permission.

 

“When expenses are understated, the perception is created that government has more money available than it actually does,” Lysyk wrote.

 

“Therefore, more money will need to be borrowed to pay for the unrecorded expenses, even when government reports an annual surplus or a balanced budget.

 

“A perception is also created of an improving trend in the relationship between the government’s financial obligations and its capacity to raise funds to meet them when the burden of net debt is actually increasing.”

h/t David Southam    who adds a few comments of his own.

 

Wynneing!

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Meanwhile back in Liberal land, a story likely to be buried by 10 year old he-made-a-pass at me allegations.

Campbell Soup Company says it’s shuttering its 87-year-old Toronto manufacturing facility within the next 18 months, impacting 380 jobs, as the food purveyor gets set to relocate it Canadian headquarters to a new location.
The company says the Toronto closure is necessary to improve its operational efficiency, citing a challenging retail environment that has seen volume declines of canned soup in North America.[…]
The company says soup and broth production at the Toronto facility will be transitioned in phases over the next 18 months to three plants in North Carolina, Ohio and Texas.

Wynneing!

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Toronto Sun.

A former senior Ontario Liberal staffer has been convicted in what the judge called a deliberate “scorched earth” attempt to destroy government emails or records related to cancelled gas plants.
Crown Tom Lemon said he will seek a custodial sentence for David Livingston, the former chief of staff to premier Dalton McGuinty, who was found guilty Friday of attempted mischief to data and unauthorized use of a computer.

I initially loaded a Brian Lilley live stream, but that didn’t work so well. A timeline of the Ontario Gas Plant scandal.

Wynneing!

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How deep, Señorita Wynne?

After Premier Kathleen Wynne rammed through new legislation hiking the minimum wage by 21 per cent at the start of 2018, without conducting any impact assessment and going against her old pledge to not raise it above inflation and giving only six-months notice, the CBC had the perfect news report to whip up proletarian anger at the business community, which would deflect blame from the unpopular Liberal premier.

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