Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox & Addington — Today, Ontario PC Energy Critic John Yakabuski and MPP Randy Hillier called on Dalton McGuinty to tell Ontario families how much more they will have to pay on their hydro bills for his expensive energy experiments.
At a time when Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox & Addington families are paying Michigan, New York and Quebec to take away surplus power, hydro rates Ontario families pay for their own power are going up again on May 1st to pay for Dalton McGuinty’s expensive energy experiments, like his smart meter tax machines, unaffordable subsidies and his sweetheart Samsung deal. As of May 1st, hydro rates will have increased 84 percent under Dalton McGuinty, and a whopping 150 percent for families and small businesses with activated smart meters.
Tim Hudak, Randy Hillier and the rest of the Ontario PC Caucus will put consumers first – both families and businesses – and respect that they pay the bills. Hudak has put forward several ideas to give families, seniors and small business owners relief on their hydro bills, such as pulling the plug on mandatory smart meter tax machines and calling for an audit of the Debt Retirement Charge – which records show should have been paid off by now.
QUOTES:“Families in my riding struggle to keep up with soaring hydro bills, yet Dalton is sending our energy to places like New York and Quebec. He expects us to pay our bills every month but won’t tell us when the rates are going to stop rising.” -- Randy Hillier, MPP for Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox & Addington
“McGuinty decided that he would create a bunch of expensive green energy projects, and yet when it comes time to pay for them he expects those in Eastern Ontario to foot the bill. What our families need is a guaranteed source of affordable hydro, not more uncertainty on our bills each and every month.” -- Randy Hillier, MPP for Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox & Addington
QUICK FACTS:
Yesterday, the Ontario Energy Board (OEB) announced another hike to hydro rate that will cost Ontario families another $75 per year. These increases are a direct result of Dalton McGuinty’s expensive energy experiments.
Hydro rates have increased eight times under Dalton McGuinty by a total of 84 percent, or a whopping 150 percent for Ontario families and small businesses with an activated smart meter tax machine.
Dalton McGuinty promised Ontario families his expensive energy experiments contained in his so-called Green Energy Act would only raise hydro bills by 1 percent. He later conceded, in last year’s Fall Economic Update, that bills are expected to go up 46 percent by 2015.
CONTACT:
Nick Kadysh | 416-325-2244 | nick.kadysh@pc.ola.org
Randy Hillier, MPP Lanark Frontenac Lennox, is a co-founder of the Lanark Landowners Association, which was brought to life to address government imposition on the rights of private property owners, and to address the regressive regulatory impositions that government was bringing down upon farmers and business owners in rural Ontario.
In 2006, Randy resigned as President of the OLA in order to run as a candidate for the Progressive Conservatives. Randy was elected in the 2007 provincial election.
Randy a long-time resident of Lanark County, an electrician by trade and member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), continues to co-publish and edit rural Ontario’s successful magazine “The Landowner.”
