Mr. Speaker, the $475 million payout for the solar panel company he was with was even more astounding when we consider the fact that most of the power electricity consumers are forced to pay for from that contract is sold at a loss to American border states.
People gaming the system could have been avoided. However, this is what happens when a regulatory body is stacked with partisan political appointees, which is what Bill C-69 would do.
Consumer watchdog Brady Yauch said this was a big mistake and that the OPA was ignoring the issue of aggregators. How many billions of dollars the greed energy policy actually ends up costing us remains to be seen.
The email said:
It's one thing to keep...government in the loop with changes and issues. But it's another thing to take direction from government—especially on very detailed programs.
These are technical issues that the government does not fully understand
Mr. MacDougall said,
Like I said, I no longer know where the lines are between [the Ontario Power Authority] and government.
I think the government didn't trust the OPA to launch and roll out this program as aggressively as they wanted us to.
When we would give advice they would consider it, but they would make their own decisions and largely ignore some of the key policy recommendations that we were trying to put into place.
The Global News article continued, “The government refused to answer specific questions about whether the policy advice was being ignored.”
If government members want to understand why Kathleen Wynne conceded the election to Doug Ford last weekend, they should heed the Global News story I have been quoting from. The parallel is the pipeline debacle that is unfolding as I speak. There is real anger in Ontario over the mismanagement of Ontario—