This ready-made juxtapose comes courtesy Maz2;
Jan 27, 2016 – Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, just before leaving for New Delhi on a 10-day trade mission
Jan. 27, 2016 – Ontario Liberals charged in gas-plant scandal in court today
EcoScam: The All-Season Libranos
“Stewardship Scandal” has a nice ring to it: The private agency designated by the Liberal government to recycle Ontario’s used tires has spent thousands on wine tastings, fine dining, a boat cruise, luxury hotels — and donations to the Liberal Party of Ontario.
Computers Say The Darnest Things
We Don’t Need No …
Ontarians have paid $37-billion more than market price for electricity over eight years and will pay another $133-billion by 2032, after the provincial government’s process for planning the system “broke down.” Electricity prices have ballooned by 70 per cent.
What’s more, Hydro One is in rough shape, with ever-increasing power outages and aging equipment “at very high risk of failing” that needs $4.472-billion worth of repairs – even as the province is in the process of selling 60 per cent of the company to the private sector.
And from National Post;
The auditor found the Green Energy Act is also driving up rates. Hydro customers will pay a total of $9.2 billion more for wind and solar projects under the Liberals’ 20-year guaranteed-price program for renewable energy than they would have paid under the old program.
Ontario’s guaranteed prices for wind power generators are double the U.S. average, while the province’s solar power rates are three-and-a-half times higher.
…and
Lysyk found 80 per cent of $1.45 billion in funding from the Ministry of Economic Development and Employment went to companies the Liberals invited to apply, but they couldn’t provide criteria they used to select firms or say if they created jobs.
Wynneing!
CTV reporting Wynne gov't considering forcing every Ontario homeowner to undergo a mandatory energy audit if they want to sell their home.
— Lorrie Goldstein (@sunlorrie) November 28, 2015
Wynneing!
Justin Trudeau no longer favours letting 25,000 Syrian refugees into Canada by Jan. 1. Does this mean Kathleen Wynne thinks he's a racist?
— Lorrie Goldstein (@sunlorrie) November 25, 2015
Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose!
New Democrat leader Dwain Lingenfelter’s promise to get more electricity from wind turbines is being criticized by the Saskatchewan Party.
The party says if elected on Nov. 7, an NDP government will add 400 megawatts of new wind power over four years.
But Sask. Party Leader Brad Wall says there’s a huge hole in the NDP platform because it’s not being costed out.
According to SaskPower planning documents, large wind power projects have capital costs of between $2 million and $3 million per megawatt…
Wall said that’s another example of the NDP making unaffordable promises.
“Are you going to make SaskPower borrow the money? Is it going to come from the general revenue fund? Or are people going to pay higher electricity rates?” Wall asked.
The wind power promise is part of the NDP’s environmental plan to ensure that by 2025, 50 per cent of the province’s electricity is clean, renewable energy.
A plan to generate half of Saskatchewan’s power from renewable sources by 2030 is “ambitious,” but the provincial government insists it can be done.
Days after Premier Brad Wall announced that by 2030, wind, solar and geothermal power would be developed to meet a 50-per-cent renewable target, minister responsible for SaskPower Bill Boyd on Monday said he was “confident SaskPower can meet the target by taking an ‘all of the above’ approach to planning.
Wynneing, flatlander-style.
Wynneing!
Congratulations Kathleen Wynne!: A lousy 4522 YouTube views of your sex-ed video with 15 likes and 2,642 dislikes! https://t.co/rpMTdRcY4w
— Lorrie Goldstein (@sunlorrie) October 8, 2015
Your money, “at work”
First, despite CCACs claims 92% of their $2.4 billion annual budget goes to direct patient care, Lysyk found almost 40%, or close to $1 billion, is spent on administration and co-ordination.
So, they lied and they got raises. Wynning!
Wynning!
The CO2 reductions just keep on coming;
About 65 employees at Baldor Electric in Stratford have learned that they will lose their jobs as the company phases out manufacturing here over the remainder of this year and early into next.
Exact dates have not been established for the closure of the facility, which began manufacturing motors at 677 Erie St. in the city under the name Reliance Electric in the 1950s.[…]
Stratford and District Chamber of Commerce general manager Garry Lobsinger called the news sad.
“They’re Chamber members and have been for a long time, and it’s just another one of our manufacturing sector people who are gone,” he said. “They’ve been good supporters of ours over the years and we’re sorry to see them go.”
Lobsinger suspected that energy costs in Ontario factored into the decision.
h/t Kevin B
Wynneing!
Standard & Poor's has downgraded Ontario from AA- to A+ Ontario "a sustained and projected underperformer" on budget and debt burden #onpoli
— Adrian Morrow (@AdrianMorrow) July 6, 2015
It’s probably nothing.
Ontario PC Leadership Results
livestreaming here
Update: Patrick Brown wins. I know nothing about anything, Ontario readers can catch you up in the comments, I presume.
Wynneing!
Goodyear will not be going ahead with a multi-million dollar plant expansion in Napanee, as the international tire giant has decided to open up in Mexico.
Prince Edward County mayor Robert Quaiff says someone close to the situation told the Ontario Warden’s Caucus today the concerns surrounding dependable electricity in Napanee coupled with rising hydro rates fueled the decision.
Cleanse your province of industry, and you don’t need no stinkin’ energy.
Wynneing!
CBC advises it’s probably nothing: The news that Toyota is moving production of its popular Corolla vehicle from Cambridge, Ont., to Mexico is further confirmation that Canada has slipped to third place in North America’s auto sector… (h/t Larry)
“Sustainable”
Compensation packages for Ontario public servants have risen so much during the last 10 years of Liberal rule it has outpaced inflation and new hires while adding billions to the debt and deficit, a new Fraser Institute report finds.
Wynneing!
Wynne’s stunning allegations appeared to be a challenge to the other two parties: Shut up or we’ll name you.
Stop making a noise about these nasty little allegations or we’ll shame you.
I’m not an expert in criminal law, so if there’s a lawyer out there or a cop who can help, can you clarify?
Is that blackmail?
Unlike the Track Owners
The breeders aren’t big political contributors.
The $4B used to go to the Gov’t, the tracks, and the breeders.
Now it doesn’t go to the breeders.