Hydro has gone up dramatically ever since the Liberals have been elected since 2003 by far far greater amount then inflation and the amount that is being reduced currently. It is not acceptable that people have to pay 500$ plus and people are taking steps to reduce power use and still getting large bills. Our Power bill has increased by 20% in the past year yet our usage has declined.
Yes, but you said Wynne was the problem, not Liberal policy. Since 2003 != Wynne. Why would you support another Liberal leader, who is not Wynne, and expect this to change? Frankly, I think Eves screwed the pooch on this one; Hydro One should have been fully outsourced at that time into 30 to 50 year Design + Build + Maintain contracts not unlike how newer LRTs/Hospitals/etc. are being managed.
Insurance rates have reduced but not to people living in Brampton at all. A middle age driver in his 20's is paying 2000-3000 dollars a year with a clean record to drive his car while a person living in other provinces is likely paying half of that. The government has created a policy to benefit the insurance companies, with lower benefits and increasing insurance rates it seems.
Yep, this is an issue, and Wynne explicitly stated she would lower rates but didn't achieve it.
The liberal government has dramatically increased the fees for driver stickers far greater then rate of inflation and has a new Clean Emission Test that pretty much does nothing to reduce emissions as cars that are polluting are passing but a new car with a computer problem has to do 100's of dollars of needless repairs to keep people like yourself happy about the world.
The new Clean Emission test is now free of charge to you; perhaps it should be eliminated or scaled back. The whole Drive Clean thing was implemented by Harris way back in '99 so perhaps it's best if the Conservatives modify the program to suit modern requirements.
Policy to increase sticker fees was put into place in 2011; so Liberal policy left over from McGuinty. I don't see how replacing Wynne while keeping the Liberals will change this type of policy.
Also "people like yourself"? Who am I?
While the government has been collecting all of this money they have been wasting it in a dramatic fashion with billions of dollars of scandals since 2003
"Since 2003", so again not really Wynne. Swapping out the Liberal leadership isn't going to fix issues that existed since 2003 (and likely before that too).
... and seemingly endless stories such as spending 70 million dollars to create a pension plan that never came to fruition,
Yep. Excellent point. Federal Government at that time could have eliminated that overhead by co-operating on this program. I'm not sure who should take the bulk of the blame. The reason the program never came to fruition is the federal government suddenly changed its mind and decided to co-operate.
spending well over 90% of a Energy Rebate on promotion and I can go on endlessly.
News fucked this one up. The budget quoted by media was the marketing budget for the program; it's 100% correct that the majority of the marketing budget was spent on marketing. The bit that wasn't represents staff overhead (like issuing staff pay-cheques).
She is installing a Carbon tax that is not revenue Neutral and will suck more money from hard working people and the funds are going into to General revenues and Doubt any great benefit to the environment.
Change in government will not fix this. Ontario has an obligation (demanded by the federal government) to follow through on ratified international treaties.
The liberal government policies are not benefiting Ontarians but seem to making people who should be prosperous, poorer by nickling and diming them to death.
So would you see our policies move closer to those of Quebec (where poor live relatively well) or those of Alberta (where rich do well when industry does well; but poor always struggle)?
As a result you may make excuses for this government, people here are fed up and want change.
So since the subject of the thread is on how changing out Wynne for another leader will allow another Liberal majority to be elected (as per recent polls); which potential Ontario Liberal leader would you vote in favour of? Also, did you vote Liberal in the last provincial election?
In the interest of disclosure, my family has sent hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund the Ontario Conservative party over the last few decades and I have a cousins in small-town politics who have been recruited by the federal conservatives. That said, I dislike Brown, mostly due to interactions with him while he was a Barrie councillor.