During that time, Ontario lost about 300,000 manufacturing jobs. Given the news we heard in Oshawa regarding the General Motors plant, given that they pay about $15 million in energy and taxes—they pay $16 million in Ontario for energy, so they would be a company that would be big enough to hire an energy auditor—and given that companies are choosing to leave before they even get an energy auditor, should we not be looking at ways to reduce the price of hydro before many more decide Ontario is just not a competitive place to do business?
On November 29th, 2018. See this statement in context.