Living the dream in Wynnetari-owe as we now pay a carbon tax plus HST on just about everything we purchase then we also pay an environmental tax on some other products so now we have 3 provincial taxes on 1 product and 1 federal tax.
A liberal appointed panel recommended a 10 cent a litre gas tax on to top of the provincial sales tax to fund infrastructure we are now starting to feel the pain of this recommendation in Wynnetari-owe as of Jan 1 2017 the liberal's started off with a 4.3 cent a litre gas tax which includes home heating oil plus HST which means we are now paying 3 provincial sales taxes on our fuel this will get more people to heat with wood to avoid paying tax on tax on a tax then we have our federal tax on fuel.
Premier Wynne is rebating us back the provincial portion of the HST this was a liberal tax grab to begin with - also with premier Wynne rebating the provincial portion of the HST and not cancelling it from our hydro bill she will be adding a billion dollars a year to our provincial debt which is expected to hit 370 billion dollars by 2020 up from roughly 138 billion dollars from when the liberals took office.
In Wynnetari-owe we export 12% of our power most of it for free or under 2 cents a kWh and now premier Wynne has recently signed a 7 year deal to buy Quebec hydroelectric power while we are diverting or spilling water at Ontario hydroelectric dams which is more than were buying from Quebec this just doesn't make any sense.
-- Fraser Institute
Since 2007, Ontario’s net debt has approximately doubled and is expected to reach $315 billion this year.
-- davidsuzuki.org
Supply and demand in an electricity system must always be the same. When you produce too much, you have to figure out how to curtail production or export the excess. In Ontario we often curtail nuclear from the Bruce plant. To do this, we simply send the heat from the nuclear reactor into Lake Huron, but we don't save any nuclear fuel. We curtail wind. And we pay generators to not produce. In 2014, Ontario paid them $200 million to not produce. Sometimes we pay neighbours to take it. Or we sell it to them real cheap — under two cents/kWh. Ontario exported 12 per cent of what it produced last year, and sold much of it at very low prices.
-- CTV News
TORONTO -- Ontario should significantly raise the gas tax and borrow more money to help raise the tens of billions of dollars needed for public transit expansion in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton area, a government-appointed panel said Thursday.
One option is to hike the gas tax by three cents a litre in 2015, climbing to 10 cents after eight years, the panel said. The province could cap the increase at five cents a litre after three years if it hikes the Harmonized Sales Tax by half a percentage point after that.
-- Ottawa Wind Concerns ~ A safe environment for everyone
Replacing coal in Ontario: what the government really did
There is so much mythology now around Ontario’s coal plants for power generation, it really is time to set the record straight on what really happened, how much it cost, and what was actually achieved. This is the first in a two-part series by Parker Gallant.
