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A local hip-hop artist has a poignant question for Kathleen Wynne: “How do you sleep at night?”

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Jeremy Renaud released a three-minute video for his song Hydro Bills, on Monday, calling out the premier of Ontario for the province’s soaring hydro rates and her ties to the controversial hikes.

“I grew tired of constantly paying overpriced bills and not having any way to be heard about how unhappy I am,” Renaud said Wednesday.

“I figured there was no time like the present to get it off my mind and use my platform to get it out there.”

Performing under the moniker J Reno, the music video had been viewed nearly 105,000 times by Thursday morning.

Renaud said his hydro bills have been well over $500 some months, which he attributes to the absence of natural gas in his neighbourhood of Little River Acres.

“I guess the logical thing would be to move but my kids are in school here, their friends are here and this is where I grew up,” Renaud explained, who has two sons ages nine and 13.

“I love my neighbourhood and it just sucks that we don’t have any assistance.”

Renaud said he will often use a space heater to avoid using the electric baseboard heaters, but when temperatures plummet he is left without a choice.

“You sit comfortable, while most people here struggle. You’re corrupt,” Renaud raps in the video, wearing a hoodie draped over his head and pointing at the camera.