{"id":44383,"date":"2015-03-09T17:05:13","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T09:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=44383"},"modified":"2025-01-18T05:51:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T10:51:22","slug":"liberals-doubling-down-on-failed-energy-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/03\/09\/liberals-doubling-down-on-failed-energy-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberals doubling down on failed energy program\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11468\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11468\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/power-lines-electricity.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11468\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/power-lines-electricity.jpg\" alt=\"ShutterStock image\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/power-lines-electricity.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/power-lines-electricity-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/power-lines-electricity-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11468\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ShutterStock image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Queen\u2019s Park &#8212; Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke MPP John Yakabuski expressed his shock at Energy Minister Bob Chiarelli\u2019s comments earlier this week that smart meters are a \u2018good-news story\u2019 for the province and that the Liberal government is contemplating yet another increase to time-of-use pricing.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the fact that the Auditor General has found that the smart meter program has run almost a billion dollars past its original budget\u2014and the devices often do not relay accurate information back to the utilities\u2014the Energy Minister continues to sing their praises. \u201cFrom the very beginning the smart meter program has been a boondoggle\u201d said Yakabuski.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy cymbalta online <a href=\"https:\/\/endomedix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/cymbalta.html\">https:\/\/endomedix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/cymbalta.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> \u201cThese devices are one of the leading reasons why ratepayers have seen skyrocketing increases in their hydro bills in recent years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even more worrisome is the Energy Minister openly musing about changing the time-of-use pricing. \u201cWhen Liberals use the word \u2018change\u2019 people should hide their wallets\u201d said Yakabuski. \u201cWe have seen time and time again that this is just a code word for the Liberals to raise the cost of hydro. Increasing the time-of-use rates will decrease people\u2019s disposable income and discourage businesses from investing in the province.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy modafinil online <a href=\"https:\/\/endomedix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/modafinil.html\">https:\/\/endomedix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/modafinil.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p>\u201d He also remarked that ratepayers already pay some of the highest power rates in North America.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy addyi online <a href=\"https:\/\/endomedix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/addyi.html\">https:\/\/endomedix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/png\/addyi.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOntarians are struggling. A decade into the Liberal\u2019s failed energy program, many families are unable to pay their hydro bills month to month. The energy ideas of the Liberals have failed ratepayers and if they do not chart a new direction soon the damage will be irreversible\u201d Yakabuski concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queen\u2019s Park &#8212; Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke MPP John Yakabuski expressed his shock at Energy Minister Bob Chiarelli\u2019s comments earlier this week that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18,483],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","category-politics","mauthors-press-release-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285293,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44383\/revisions\/285293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}