Noront Resources

For the North Wynne could do something about the hydro rates and ignite the ring. Maybe this would bring her approval rating up to Trump's?

Now is the time.

GLTA

http://www.thesudburystar.com/2016/09/10/pov-premier-wynnes-shocking-discovery

Eureka!

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne has seen the light, had an epiphany and undergone a conversion on the road to Damascus!

She has discovered -- wait for it -- that hydro rates in Ontario are too high and she needs to do something about them.

Thank you, Captain Obvious!

Wynne said this week that was one of the lessons she took from last week's byelection loss in Scarborough-Rouge River, where Patrick Brown's Progressive Conservatives took a seat away from the Ontario Liberals that they had held, in various configurations, for 31 years.

In politics this is known as a pivot.

Wynne's doing it because she is a smart politician who knows that her tin ear up to now on skyrocketing hydro rates is one of the reasons her party is running a distant second to the PCs across the province and her personal approval rating is at 16 per cent, according to a recent Forum Research poll.

That's less than half of Donald Trump's and Hillary Clinton's approval ratings in the U.S., and they are two of the most unpopular presidential candidates in American history.

Wynne said one reason for high hydro rates is that the Ontario Liberals had to upgrade the electricity grid, which was badly in need of repair when they took power in 2003.

That's true. But what she didn't mention was that two auditors-general of Ontario have reported that the Liberals have wasted tens of billions of public dollars in their reckless pursuit of green energy, a major factor in rising hydro rates.

These blunders have included failing to produce detailed business plans before acting, ignoring advice from their own experts which could have saved the public billions of dollars and creating billion-dollar fiascoes such as the cancelled gas plants and the disastrous roll out of their smart meter program.

The result is that Ontarians are paying among the highest rates in North America for electricity and hundreds of thousands of people are living in fuel poverty, where a family or individual spends more than 10% of their income simply to power and heat their homes.

So, yes, it would be helpful if the premier, newly concerned about high hydro rates, would actually do something about them.

Ontarians can hardly wait.