… the world’s most indebted sub-sovereign borrower, will increase its current total debt of $300 billion by a staggering $50 billion in just the next four years.
By 2020-21, the Liberals will have recklessly hiked Ontario’s debt 152% from the $138.8 billion they inherited in 2003.
Wynneing!
Life is a charging station, gonna charge it all night long…
The full network of stations will allow electric vehicles to travel from Windsor, Ont., to Ottawa, or from Toronto to North Bay, Ont., as well as in and around major urban centres.
The stations — which will be placed at more than 250 locations including highways, workplaces and public spaces — are all expected to be in service by the end of March next year.
The government says the $20 million investment in the charging stations comes from Ontario’s $325 million Green Investment Fund, which supports projects that fight climate change.
Hey, it’s only money debt.
Wynning!
Wynning!
If we don’t tell him, he can’t call us liars.
“The difficulties I have faced in accessing the information my office needs to produce relevant and timely analyses are much greater than I expected they would be,” LeClair said. “Ministries have repeatedly refused to provide my office with information on grounds that are not founded in my enabling legislation.”
More Pavilions At Folkfest
James, via email,
Ontario, which prosecutes ordinary folks for slaughtering beef for neighbours, has sneakily allowed 40+ facilities to provide “ritual” Halal slaughter services.
This means that Muslims, without any training or certification, can go to these places and can cut their own goat’s throat without stunning the animal – that would land anyone else before the courts.
And here’s the kicker: the “certification” of these facilities as places where ritual Halal slaughters may be conducted was not granted by any Ontario or federal government agency, but rather, by a Muslim council.
Wynneing!
Ontario’s big, green assisted economic suicide plan
…this new plan, billed by the Liberals as a “once-in-a-lifetime transformation” for Ontario’s economy, may also prove the end of Ontario’s lifetime of economic progress. In an era where assisted dying is the big thing with Liberals, this could be the first case where it’s tried on a province.
The leaked cabinet document, reportedly signed-off on by Premier Kathleen Wynne, lists a jaw-dropping 80 or so policies including: The eventual ban on heating new homes and buildings with natural gas, with only electric or geothermal being legal; $4 billion to be doled out by a “green bank,” funded by carbon taxes, to subsidize retrofits of buildings to get them off natural gas; the requirement that homes undergo an “energy-efficiency audit” before they can be sold; and a stack of rules, regulations and handouts to get an electric car into every two-car household within eight years, including rebates, free electric charging, and plug-in stations at every liquor store. Naturally, there will be billions more in traditional government-spending programs on public transit, bike paths, upgrades for schools and hospitals, and “research” funds and centres of climate excellence, not to mention new ethanol fuel standards that will gratify the Liberals’ top corporate donors in the biofuel lobby.
All in the family: Wynne’s Brother-in-law the new CEO of EHealth, BUT he also has deep ties to the Wind Industry
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Ontario’s industrial structure continues the decade-long shift from its traditional pillars of manufacturing and finance to government-directed investments in transportation and utilities. Before the recession, capital spending by manufacturing and finance reached $18.3 billion. Now, they total half that. In their place, investment in transportation and utilities has doubled from $10 billion to $20 billion. Instead of world-class factories and banks, Ontario now invests in mass transit and green-energy projects, mostly dictated by government.
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The contrast between business investment in Quebec and Ontario shows that the billions poured into government infrastructure and green-energy projects has not “kick-started” Ontario’s business investment as the government hoped. In fact, the high taxes and electricity rates needed to pay for these schemes seems to be driving investment out of Ontario, especially from its manufacturing core. Slumping investment is hardly surprising since business confidence in Ontario is the lowest in Canada, with only 30 per cent of firms saying the province is headed in the right direction. Not even a lower dollar has made it worthwhile for firms to expand. Instead, Ontario’s building a magnificent transportation infrastructure to carry imported goods that used to be made here and to ferry commuters to jobs that will not materialize as long as business investment flounders.
Shocker, I know.
Wynneing!
Despite 18 months of problems associated with the software responsible for tracking Ontarians on social assistance, the Ontario government has awarded a two-year $32-million IT contract aimed at servicing the software to the same company that created it. […]
“It should be fixed under warranty,” said Smokey Thomas, the president of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union, which represents caseworkers who deliver services to social assistance recipients across the province.
“So they hire IBM, and pay them even more money to fix the problems that they created with the system they sold.”
h/t Bob
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Conservation pays: Low power use in the winter means Hydro rates increase
Wynneing!
A chicken in every pot, a gun to every head;
Things just got a whole lot brighter in Canada for the dismal electric-car business. Word has leaked that the country’s largest province is preparing to help buy a plug-in vehicle or hybrid for millions of families across the province — or will at least force those families to buy one. The details of how Ontarians are getting all those green vehicles weren’t clear in the confidential draft version of the Wynne Liberals’ “Climate Change Action Plan” leaked to The Globe and Mail on Wednesday. But the goals are crystal clear: A promise to get 1.7 million low-emission cars on the roads in the next eight years, and pull seven million gas-powered cars off in the next 14.
That’s in addition to making sure 80 per cent of us ride transit or walk or bike to work, and ensuring the majority of the buildings in the province are “emissions-free” by 2050. And to engineer this great, gleaming, green society, the Liberals will create a brand new monopolistic government behemoth, a “new ultra-low-carbon utility” that will have a sweeping mandate to micro-engineer how you get to work, how you heat your home, and how the economy is powered.
Or, there are always elections.
The Tolerant Left
Wynneing!
With LED lighting and a natural gas generator Willemsen says the store will be able to go off the Provincial power grid.
“Natural gas is so inexpensive that we will be able to produce our own electricity cheaper than buying it from Hydro One”.
The zoning approvals took seven years. (h/t Paul)
Pay to Play
In BC and Ontario is finally raising the hackles of some.
About time.
Short-tails
Trudeau and Wynne shoot blanks in Whitby-Oshawa.
“It’s nice to see that sunny ways have come with blue skies here in Whitby-Oshawa,” Brown said.
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
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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
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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.
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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