REMEMBER THE DARK AGES: THE HARRIS-HUDAK ENERGY RECORD

QUEEN'S PARK, ON, Nov. 25 /CNW/ - Tim Hudak doesn't have a plan to keep the lights on for Ontario families & seniors, but does have a record which risked leaving everyone in the dark.  Conservatives are desperate for Ontario families to forget the Harris-Hudak guardrail-to-guardrail energy policies, which left Ontarians paying more for a less reliable, dirty electricity system. 

• First, they tried to force deregulation and privatization - which saw electricity prices rise over 30% in 7 short months.
• Then, when that failed, they flip-flopped and imposed an artificial price cap and stuck taxpayers with a $1-billion tab.
• All the while, the Harris-Hudak Conservative government refused to invest in Ontario's electricity systems: they more than doubled our reliance on coal, increasing climate change emissions by 124%.
• At a time when demand rose by 8%, local generation fell by 6% - the equivalent of Niagara Falls running dry.  Ontario became a net-importer of electricity, at the mercy of US energy companies.
• The Harris-Hudak gang actually removed the public's ability to file freedom-of-information requests into Hydro One and then hid hundreds of thousands of sole-sourced, untendered contracts to Conservative insiders & campaign staff.

When they had the chance, the Conservatives made a mess of Ontario's energy system. Now they want to try it all over again.  Ontario families & seniors just can't afford to go back to the energy dark ages with Tim Hudak and the Conservatives.

For further information:

Andrew Teliszewsky
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416-325-3670