Ontario Hydro Up for Sale

chandy01
chandy01: Now Wynne our Premier is talking about selling Hydro One. Are they trying to re-coup the money lost in the McGinty gas plant fiasco? As far as I am concerned McGinty should be locked up for fraud. Anyone else wouldn't have got away with the stunt he pulled off! Ontario is already paying the highest amount for hydro out of the other provinces. Ontario is going down the tubes FAST......
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Captain Canada
Captain Canada: Um Wynne not trying to sell,Hydro One was sold to the bureaucratic industry as soon Mike Harris lost the elections,Harris kept prices down for the consumer and wage freeze on its work force and eliminated 23 top executives positions that earned a combined 85 million per year in salaries back in the 90's,imagine what these executives would have earned today if not for the cuts.
Those executives that lost their cosy positions became consumer advocates for the taxpayers of Ontario and to form alliances with unions to remove Mike from office which they rape the Ontario working stiffs of millions of dollars annually in the name of ""watch dog agencies """.
The bureaucracy agencies opened up another way to extract money from the consumers pockets
They created the local hydro agencies like in your neck of the woods most likely Peterborough Hydro that has a President,a Vice President,a manager and all staff and those trucks and expensive office space,now add other agencies as the like of Toronto hydro,mississauga hydro and others like that spread through out the rest of the province and you have a money hungry mad machine that suck money out of the province coffers
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chandy01
chandy01: Captain...what do you think of McGinty's stunt?
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Captain Canada
Captain Canada: Dalton was just a political figure caught within the crossfire,nothing more nothing less.
A politician is just a spokesperson while in office.
Any city mayor for example is elected he or she has plans,vision on future of that city,only to find out that they have no authority to change things at city hall they are elected to attend events,public announcements parades etc.because the people that really call the shots are the city managers that been operating ,directing or conducting business for a few years before the new mayor and will still remain on the job for at least another 4 new mayors in the future.
This scenario is played nation wide in all levels of government.
Dalton for sure wasn't the only politician involved in the gas plant crap.
Please refresh my memory if any politician ever been convicted in canadian courts for fraudulent act with taxpayers monies,and if they have spend more than 3 days in prison
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Outbackjack
Outbackjack: Gas plant fiasco.That sounds familiar.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Western_Australian_gas_crisis

A U.S company trying to save a lousy buck in maintenance brought Western Australia to it's knees and worse despite overwhelming evidence to prove this the W.A government under Colin Barnett bowed to their corporate masters so not a single charge was laid against the company.
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Captain Canada
Captain Canada: Charges are mentioned always but never proven in court
Court proceedings are just to allow joe public to believe that political figures can the jailed
what a waste of courtroom,media and energy
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Captain Canada
Captain Canada: I will not mention any names but easy to find out who I am talking about with a little research
About 30 years ago a city councilman was caught with his hands in the cookie jar a few times,caught taking bribes from local contractors to grant tendering privileges,extorting monies from land developers to favor certain projects ,the man even pushed city council to expropriate hundreds of acres of land with factories from business owners for millions of dollars that taxpayers still on the hook for it,than with his right hand man a lawyer bought back the properties from city for mere pennies.
Today those some properties are housing condo towers and the Pan Am athletes village and some stadiums for the game,he made millions selling it back to the government hahahah
dude was kicked out of office,was hired moments later as president of a nationwide newspaper company,there he masterminded a plan for the city to build a world class stadium for a new baseball team,TheToronto Blue Jays with only a 25 million dollar investment from the taxpayers,city council takes the bait and Skydome is build just a tab over budget to a tune of 610 million ,but city people are happy,working stiff gets a baseball team and a stadium
Lads next move quit the newspaper and becomes president and ceo of the stadium corporations which apparently starts to loss money due to lack of revenue from baseball team and also due to massive costs to repair and renovate the 5 month old brand new stadium,he advised city council to sell outright the facility to a billionaire that owners the baseball team for a whopping 150million dollars,rumour is he got a few million in commission,but that's just rumours Hahahah
After sale completed he quits his job and becomes top guy in the lottery gaming commission somehow some funds went missing government claims over 60 million vanished ,small amount according to his legal team,he is dismissed from his position with full pay and no longer working for the government
At present he is suing the Ontario government for wrongful dismissal
Mother fucker hasn't even been charged at all
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Outbackjack
Outbackjack: That is insane. You would expect that from some banana republic.
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Captain Canada
Captain Canada: Banana republic,Hahaha
Jack it happens everywhere,it's just done in a more elaborate and sophisticated ways.
Everyone wants POWER and MONEY
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Outbackjack
Outbackjack: It is done everywhere but not everyone wants power and money though you could argue a majority do.

In the western World that former city councilman would have to take the cake if all that is public knowledge and he still keeps doing it.
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Captain Canada
Captain Canada: Ok Jack yes. The majority wants power and money,
Nothing moves in the area that his hands are not in,direct or indirect
Like it's said if you need things done and moved just call and for a price things get done,
Man is very well connected
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