Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MPP Bill Walker wants Premier Kathleen Wynne to explain how families, businesses and public institutions can prepare for increases on their electricity bills after she sells Hydro One.
In a release Walker says pending increases will be on top of the 42-per-cent rate hike announced last year adding that rates have already more than tripled in the last 11 years.
“Rate increases are forcing cuts in the classroom, hospitals and long-term care homes…Sixty families in my riding of Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound alone had their utilities disconnected last fall because they couldn’t afford your rates,” Walker said in today’s question period. “How much more out of control will the rates get? How many more families will have their utilities disconnected?”
Walker says the sale of majority stake in Hydro One will result in a loss in revenue for the provincial government.
He adds that this is bad news considering the Liberal government is running an 11-billion dollar deficit.
