{"id":3414,"date":"2015-10-30T13:26:42","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T17:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/?p=3414"},"modified":"2020-04-17T18:31:03","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T22:31:03","slug":"if-the-wynne-government-can-privatize-hydro-one-even-though-it-will-drive-up-costs-for-ontario-residents-and-businesses-whats-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/index.php\/if-the-wynne-government-can-privatize-hydro-one-even-though-it-will-drive-up-costs-for-ontario-residents-and-businesses-whats-next\/","title":{"rendered":"If The Wynne Government Can Privatize Hydro One, Even Though It Will Drive Up Costs For Ontario Residents And Businesses, What\u2019s Next?\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(October 30, 2015)<\/p>\n<p>By\u00a0Natalie Mehra, Niagara At Large<\/p>\n<p><em>(Natalie Mehra and the non-profit activist group she directs may be familiar to people in Niagara, Ontario who have lobbied to save hospital services across this region. She and members of the OHA have made numerous visits to Niagara in recent years to support residents in their struggle to keep community hospitals operating.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Toronto, Ontario, October 30<sup>th<\/sup>, 2015<\/strong> \u2013 After twenty years on the front lines of the movement to protect our public health care in Ontario, perhaps I should be more jaded.<\/p>\n<p>But when I read the headlines today announcing the\u00a0mulish determination of Kathleen Wynne and her government to sell off Hydro One despite all reason, despite overwhelming public opposition and the\u00a0antimony of both the Conservatives and the NDP, despite expert assessments warning of higher costs, and\u00a0regardless of\u00a0the fact that it is privatization of the management of our electricity grid for goodness sake \u2014 I almost can\u2019t believe it.<\/p>\n<p>We should all be up in arms.<\/p>\n<p>If Wynne is willing to give away public hydro what will she not privatize?<span id=\"more-15638\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>If I seem angry, that\u2019s because Wynne ran an entire election campaign on investing in public services, not cutting them. She\u2019s supposed to be better than this. She never once mentioned forcing through the largest privatization in Ontario\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>She has no mandate. None.<\/p>\n<p>Not for this. And not for what she has been doing to the health care system.<\/p>\n<p>So far, this government seems hell-bent on dismantling public hospitals too. No amount of evidence that the cuts have gone too far moves them. Not gridlocked hospitals\u00a0with patients suffering the indignity of lying on stretchers for days in hallways. Not patients discharged at all hours of the day or night though they are practically at death\u2019s door.<\/p>\n<p>And while we\u2019ve stymied the government\u2019s\u00a0attempt to cut wholesale all the surgeries, all outpatient clinics, and diagnostics from Ontario\u2019s hospitals and contract them out to private clinics (thanks to the intervention of\u00a0a fairly progressive Health Minister, I think) we still have a long way to go to stop it fully.<\/p>\n<p>Every\u00a0week I hear of more private clinics doing hospital work. At the health coalition we are inundated daily\u00a0with stories from patients who are compelled to pay hundreds or even thousands of dollars in\u00a0unlawful user fees at these clinics.<\/p>\n<p>But I digress.<\/p>\n<p>This week,\u00a0the Financial Accountability Officer for the Ontario Legislature warned in a report that the province will be in worse economic shape after the Hydro-One sell off.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the money the province will get for the privatization\u00a0scheme is nowhere near what they projected, and that it may well end up <em>increasing<\/em> the province\u2019s debt, not reducing it.\u00a0This, after recent weeks of news reports that the salary of Hydro One CEO has swelled to more than $1.3 million since the Wynne government\u2019s privatization, and may go as high as $4 million per year.<\/p>\n<p>Premier Wynne\u2019s response? A determined,\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s going\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It may increase the provincial debt and we are all going to pay more for hydro,\u00a0but she\u2019s selling off Hydro One regardless.<\/p>\n<p>It is the same\u00a0damn-the-torpedoes attitude she showed in response to the Ontario Auditor General\u2019s report that gave evidence that Ontario\u2019s privatized P3 schemes \u2013 mostly privatized P3 hospitals \u2013 have cost\u00a0Ontarians $8 billion more than if the infrastructure was funded publicly with proper management.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Wynne didn\u2019t even bat an eye.<\/p>\n<p>As we\u2019re all told that we have to tighten our belts, the privatized P3s are\u00a0forging full steam ahead. The investors (like the big banks and multinational finance firms, not incidentally \u2014\u00a0note below when you come to Ed Clark) are laughing all the way to the bank\u00a0while we watch our local hospitals getting eviscerated.<\/p>\n<p>For Hydro One, the government is claiming that they will take the\u00a0proceeds\u00a0and use\u00a0them to build transportation infrastructure. The pretense is that Hydro One and\u00a0Public Transportation Infrastructure are like a teeter totter.\u00a0We have to cut funds from one to raise them for the other. There is, according to this framing of the issues, no other conceivable way to raise funds for transit and roads.<\/p>\n<p>(What about an\u00a0\u201cOntario Moves\u201d\u00a0public transportation bond-issue? Where are the optional tax proposals priced-out and compared to the apparent no-benefit high-risk\u00a0sell-off of Hydro One?)<\/p>\n<p>For Kathleen Wynne, apparently the expertise of the Legislature\u2019s Financial Accountability Officer has nothing on TD Financial\u2019s Ed Clark.<\/p>\n<p>Clark,\u00a0the so-called financial\u00a0\u201cguru\u201d \u2013 a horrible misappropriation of that term \u2014 who came up with the sell-off scheme,\u00a0is, not-so-incidentally, the father of Bert Clark, the CEO of Infrastructure Ontario (the privatized P3 arm\u00a0in the Ontario\u00a0government).<\/p>\n<p>Bert (son) will be\u00a0in charge of the Hydro One sale. How cozy.<\/p>\n<p>Ed Clark (father), like Don Drummond before him, and like all the boatloads of consultants and experts that they use to justify hospital cuts, is the front-man, in place to provide \u201cexpert\u201d cover for the privatization plan.<\/p>\n<p>And while we will all pay more for hydro, along with every local business and some big ones as well, Bay Street loves the hydro privatization scheme. Go figure.<\/p>\n<p>Wynne\u2019s message is clearly designed to end the debate\u2026.It\u2019s happening, no matter what we think.<\/p>\n<p>But what if we refused to just let her get away with it? What if <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">every single<\/span> one of us called our local MPP over the weekend and told them, just one line: \u201cDo everything in your power to stop the sell-off of Hydro One. I will be watching and I will vote on it come the next election.\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>What if we really did that? What if we all demanded a referendum? After all we are supposed to be the owners of Hydro One.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it would amount to nothing.\u00a0But it will certainly help make sure that they don\u2019t think they can get away with these things easily.<\/p>\n<p>I, for one, cannot just sit back and watch this happen.<\/p>\n<p>If they can get away with privatizing Hydro One, I\u00a0shudder to think\u00a0what they\u2019ll think they\u00a0can do to\u00a0our hospitals.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Natalie Mehra<\/strong>, Executive Director \u2013 <\/em><em>Ontario Health Coalition<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>P.S. Here\u2019s the list of your MPPs. I\u2019m calling mine right now. I hope you call yours.<\/strong> <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ontla.on.ca\/lao\/en\/getting-involved\/contact-an-mpp\/\">http:\/\/www.ontla.on.ca\/lao\/en\/getting-involved\/contact-an-mpp\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u00a0<\/span>To learn more about the <strong>Ontario Health Coalition<\/strong> and its advocacy work visit<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> \u2013<\/span><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/\">http:\/\/www.ontariohealthcoalition.ca\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Visit <strong>Niagara At Large<\/strong> at <\/em><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.niagaraatlarge.com\/\">www.niagaraatlarge.com<\/a><\/span><em> for more news and commentary for and from the greater bi-national Niagara region.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>(NOW IT IS YOUR TURN. 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