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Rant about your hydro bills on Facebook; score an audience with the Premier in her office. Kathleen Wynne is going to be awfully busy if Libby Keenan’s experience sets precedent.

“I love this province!” the Amherstburg horse farmer wrote in an epic online open letter, after finding herself in arrears on her electricity bill.

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“The cosmopolitan cities, second to none in the world, the wilderness, stunningly beautiful and pristine, the north country, all of it and you are absolutely gutting it! … You have broken my beautiful Ontario and I mourn for her.”

The post having gone viral, Keenan brought her message to Queens Park on Wednesday and presented as something approaching a politician’s worst nightmare: a hardworking middle-class person who can’t pay her bills thanks to deliberate decisions that politician and her colleagues made.

Many of the people who commented on her Facebook post have it much worse than her, Keenan said — including a 69-year-old woman who had turned off her heat.