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SARNIA — Newlyweds Shaun and Maygin Evans work four jobs between them, but still can’t stay on top of their hydro bill.

The Sarnia couple took in a roommate this year to share in their living costs, and they also bundle up in blankets to delay turning on their baseboard electrical heaters until the temperature hits zero for several straight days.

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Shaun’s seven-year-old daughter, Ava, goes without school pizza days and dance classes to help make ends meet.

But even with all of that, the family has received disconnection notices after falling $1,200 behind on their hydro bill — a hole they’re afraid they will never get out of.

“The only reason the lights are on right now is because I agreed to pay $100 every two weeks for the electricity portion of the bill,” Maygin told Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath at the couple’s kitchen table Wednesday.

Horwath has been on the road hearing hydro horror stories, vowing her party will keep fighting the Liberal government’s planned sell-off of a majority stake in Hydro One, and to push for the permanent removal of HST from hydro bills.