Doug Ford isn’t waiting to win the June election before taking action against Hydro One.

On Thursday the Progressive Conservative leader called on the Hydro One board and executives to resign after the Globe and Mail reported that it made firing the CEO more expensive just months ahead of the provincial election.

“This is outrageous, this is shameful, and it’s absolutely disgusting,” Ford told reporters Thursday morning in Etobicoke.

Ford has already said he would fire the board if he becomes premier.

CEO Mayo Schmidt’s annual compensation ballooned to $6.2 million once the power utility was privatized.

If he is fired following a change of control in the company, he would be entitled to $10.7 million severance compared to $5 million severance if his firing doesn’t follow a change in control.

Ford’s promise to replace the Hydro One board would count as a change of control and so would entitle Schmidt to the much larger severance.

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The Progressive Conservatives spent question period on Thursday hammering the Liberals with questions about Hydro One. Premier Kathleen Wynne punted all of the questions directed at her to Energy Minister Glenn Thibeault.

Speaking to reporters afterward, Thibeault refused to say whether he knew about the changes and wouldn’t say if the government’s representatives on the board supported the change.

“We’re shareholders of Hydro One we’re not micromanagers of it,” he said in response to repeated questions.

Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath said the compensation changes were inevitable once the province sold its control of the power utility.

“Skyrocketing bills and outrageous executive salaries are a direct result of the privatization of Hydro One – which Doug Ford strongly supports,” Horwath said in an emailed statement. “Firing every executive at Hydro One just creates a bunch of openings for more million-dollar executives to take their place, as long as it’s a private corporation.”

The NDP say if they form government they would buy back the shares and bring Hydro One under government control.

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