You really think they saved $790 million on 'energy that wasn't needed'?
What an imaginary claim.
Doug Ford is screwing up Ontario
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What an imaginary claim.
No previous Ontario government has spent more on healthcare than the current one despite getting under-funded by the feds compared to other provinces.
Stupid comment.
Ontario is the largest province, of course the total spent is the most.
Ontario spends the least per capita, per person, that is the point.
Maybe you really are at 4 year old levels of comprehension.
None of the communities wanted them and it was simply a Liberal government making haste to virtue signal about "green energy" without think things through.
Based on the crappy contracts established by the Liberals, it was a worthwhile strategy by the new PC government in Ontario in 2018. The savings claimed is based on cost avoidance for the future should those contracts have remained.
The contracts were crap and the issue was complicated.
You can find the details here:
https://energyregulationquarterly.c...wind-and-solar-contracts#sthash.7d1IxX9l.dpbs
And more about the cost savings...
"but the math is pretty simple. The unneeded power would have cost ratepayers $790 million. Not buying it produces a net saving of $559 million. It would have been foolish to pass up that opportunity.
It’s fair to say the government played down the cost of the cancellations and did its best to keep the figure secret. If the goal is to cancel contracts as cheaply as possible, it’s probably not wise to announce that you have a bag of money to dispense.
It’s a pity the $231 million will have to be spent, but it would not have been necessary had the previous government not signed a raft of wind and solar deals simply for green optics."
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/ra...r-contracts-in-over-powered-ontario-heres-why
How much did the coal and natural gas cost vs the cost from renewables in the contracts, skoob?
He's doing a great job not a good job and will win a 3rd majority next election. How would that happen if he wasn't doing a great job? Heck how did he win two majority elections up to now?
Seems to me the bias is coming from people who just don't like him regardless what he does. He could cure cancer and it wouldn't change those people's minds. Talk about bias indeed!
Holy f*ck all you do is ask questions and provide zero factual information in return.
I've provided info with facts & sources after you cried about me using the government info and you still want more while you provide nothing.
How about you start providing some factual info and stop assigning people homework because you're too lazy to do your own research?
Can you handle that? Or is your only source of info fake Xitter posts that result in you apologizing afterwards for spreading misinformation when you are called out?
More lefty woke hogwash, Doug and his party will roll into a 3rd majority. If your tone was any whinier I'd say you are Marit "I got by job by default" Stiles.
FORD MORE YEARS!
Yes, it is stupidly expensive. Another reason the city should take a hard look at expenditures. Is a $150 million 2 km bike path really at the top of the city's expenditures?
You should know by now that Frankfooter doesn't read any article that don't support his narrative. I'm not sure why we even bother pointing out facts to him. He'll just spew out the same old garbage. You could post a completely left wing article that refutes one of his claims, and he'll still tell you you're wrong. He should change his name from Frankfooter to Infalliblefooter...
BTW, if healthcare and everything else was so great in the province, why were the liberal kicked to the curb a couple elections ago?
Can't wait to see his head explode when we have a new Prime Minister. lol
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Tell it like the far right have ingrained into your head. Nothing else of substance!!
Did I say Wynn was the best at any time? All I said was that DOFO proving to be the worst. He does not have a proper education and was even an alleged street drug dealer!!
He really has come up with crap like a $1 beer. He has ballooned the deficit in spit of promising a surplus. We know that he comes up with hollow promises. Yet Healthcare lineups have got worse and worse under his watch.
Bla bla bla... Not everyone who votes conservative are "far right." Just like not everyone who votes liberal is "far left". I have no problem calling out any politician when I feel they make stupid decisions. What bothers me is that some people are so left or so right that they they can't even acknowledge a good idea, unless it comes from their party. That's really sad. Can't see the forest for the trees.
Healthcare lineups are greater? You mean after the the Feds opened up immigration. Ever think that might have have something to do with it? You are so shortsighted... It's amazing the McGuinty/Wynne Liberals didn't get re-elected. After all, they were doing such a great job. Or did I miss something?
You caught the bull by the tail. Who said that everyone who votes Conservative is Far right? You took it out of context, as it was in one particular reference in response to what was previously stated!!
But the blah.. blah...blahing is coming from your end!!
OIC now you are blaming the Feds. Remember that a lot of those immigrating to Canada have joined the Healthcare service as doctors, and nurses. It is the way that Ford treated these frontline workers during the Pandemic that caused a number of them to quit. Their pay and bonus etc was not reflecting the number of hours that they were dedicating to help the patients that were crowding the hospitals. You are the one that cannot think rationally in this respect. Why did Harper not get re-elected if he was doing a great job? Yes, you missed everything!!
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Skoob posted a DoFo announcement that spending $230 million to cancel renewable contracts was really saving $700 million. It was in the article that he posted but he didn't read that the savings were from claimed sales in the future.
Healthcare is provincial, its one of the big reasons DoFo wants an election here before PeePee screws it up federally.
DoFo's latest is to cancel safe injection sites while there are 234,000 homeless people and the parks are filled with desperate people in tents.
