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In July, Ontario Energy Minister Glenn Thibeault was pressed by Shirlee Engel of Global TV on the rising cost of electricity bills. “While I’m still not using the word crisis,” said Thibeault, “I know it’s important. For one family if it’s a hundred bucks out of their own pocket that’s a crisis for them and I get that.”

In September Premier Wynne mentioned the word “hydro” at an international plowing match, and was instantly booed.

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Now it appears we have a government in a panic mode trying to deal with a crisis of its own making.

The Throne Speech held promises about getting rid of the provincial portion of the HST on electricity bills. Then on September 13, a press release from Thibeault confirmed the 8 per cent reduction lowering bills $130 annually, and announced other actions such as, “Providing eligible rural ratepayers with additional relief, decreasing total electricity bills by an average of $540 a year or $45 each month.”