After announcing the possible sale of Hydro One, Premier Kathleen Wynne told the Globe and Mail in March that "whatever we do, we are going to control prices. We are going to make sure that the regulatory regimes that will protect people in this province stay in place."

She has repeated that promise in the media again and again.

The clauses in Bill 91 are completely contradictory to Wynne's promises. The removal of "regulatory regimes that will protect people in this province" by Bill 91 is jaw dropping.

In Bill 91, in plain language, oversight from the Auditor General and the ombudsman is removed. Oversight, the financial accountability officer for Hydro One and all government power to regulate the accounting practices and policies of Hydro One is removed.

The salary cap on Hydro One's executives and the requirement to report salaries to the "Sunshine List" have been removed.

The authority of the Freedom of Information Act for the province and for municipalities and any of Hydro One's subsidiaries, has been removed.

Restrictions forbidding Hydro One from hiring lobbyists have been removed. Bill 91, removes Hydro One from all ties to the "broader public sector." There is a clause in Bill 91 forbidding the government from buying back Hydro One. And there is much more.

Of great concern is the removal of the 33 per cent tax if you sell your local municipal hydro. Cash strapped municipalities may be very tempted to sell their local utilities.

This legislation gives total control to the corporations and paves the way for a tsunami of privatization.

It's important to note that under the partial privatization of hydro generation, hydro rates have gone up over 320 per cent in the last 15 years. That is 10 times the rate of inflation according to Statistics Canada.

This is the most right-wing bill since former premier Mike Harris's Bill 26, the Omnibus bill. It is the biggest transfer of public wealth to the private few in Canadian history and sells out future generations of Ontarians.

Wynne's credibility on the whole matter is in tatters. She has no mandate to sell Hydro One. Liberals in her caucus, who privately oppose this sale, would be well advised to speak up now or spend more than a decade in the political wilderness after the next election.

Nobody has forgotten the sellout of Highway 407.