POLL: 84% oppose Hydro sell-off “in premier’s backyard”

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Minerva Hui

About 150 people gathered at the Canadian Legion at 243 Coxwell Ave Saturday morning to protest the privatization of Ontario Hydro by the Liberal Government. This chapter of the province-wide protest is intended to pressure Beaches-East york MPP Artur Potts to oppose his party’s plan. So far, there is little sign of that with the member saying the government has a mandate for the sell off. If so, many people missed it and an Environics poll released by organizers at the meeting says that 84 percent of people living in downtown Toronto, East York and York oppose the sale, with 52 percent saying they strongly oppose it. Some 64 percent of the 727 person sample said it will make them less likely to vote Liberal in the next election. Minerva Hui, organizer of the meeting, said the poll “shows a vast majority of people  in this riding and in Kathleen Wynne’s backyard (Don Valley West) wanted the government to stop the sale of Hydro One from going any further even before last week’s sell-off a further 15 percent.”  The meeting plotted other activities to oppose Hydro privatization. There will be a leaflet campaign Thursday, May 26, 2016 at 5.30 at the Woodbine subway station. Where’s Adam Beck when you need him? 

  3 comments for “POLL: 84% oppose Hydro sell-off “in premier’s backyard””

  1. The government sent out many distractions during the period, while secretly and quickly pushing this agenda. The Opposition wasted time with distractions, should have stuck to one subject HYDRO because the negative impact will be huge and lasting. Wherever in the world Hydro was privatised, people suffered, mostly the poorer ones. Liberals should have been shot down on this from the beginning.

  2. The government does NOT have a mandate to sell any of Hydro One I have been following Hydro One and the Provincial Government posts for a long time and have seen absolutely nothing about a mandate until now. I’m rural, and I have to say that my hydro bills are absolutely ridiculously high. The rates go up any more and I’ll be on the street!! If Wynne would quit selling our excess power at a discount to upstate N.Y., then perhaps the hydro rates for the citizens of Ontario would go down. Buffalo N.Y. is currently advertising they have the lowest electrical rates in the States and are actively seeking corporations to settle there. I know where we went wrong – does Kathleen Wynne????

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