The link leads to an un-bylined CBC story quoting a professor and a local ethnic reporter which suggests Ontario’s hydro electric planning — using the term loosely — may have cost the Liberals their former stronghold of Scarborough Rouge-River in Thursday’s byelection. That and other pocketbook issues are seen as more important perhaps that the sex education issue. There is a genuinely nutty, upside-down quality to the economics of electricity generation on Ontario which sees consumers paying more for power even though they economize. Meanwhile, excess generation is sold off to U.S. states for a fraction of the cost per kilowatt hour paid at home. CBC
