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"My company I work for there Hydro bill ranges from 1 to 1.5 Million per month"
Once again, can the NDP candidate in your riding explain where the money they will give your employer will come from?
"The 8% is the tax they want to remove from hydro bills"
I hope you are not assuming your employer pays the tax. ALL HST paid by the company is fully (100%) rebated as Input Tax Credit. Corporations in Ontario get back all the HST they pay at time of purchase and that includes HST paid on electricity.
Here's my plan:
a) Hudak's not getting my vote, no way, no how.
b) Unfortunately this election has to be a strategic vote because of the party system and we're stuck with it (for now).
c) Check the polls near the election and if the Libs and the NDP are close to each other then I'll vote NDP. If the NDP haven't mustered enough steam and it's the Liberals or the Hudak, then the Liberals get my vote.
d) If between now and the election Aliens land and kidnap Hudak and the Conservatives appoint a new leader, then I have to rethink the whole thing.
A lady I know had a call from the Conservative candidate in her area today. She told me that they were having an on-phone question period and did she want to participate? She said "yes". They said she could ask a question but it had to be screened first. She asked about healthcare, got a pat answer, isn't voting for the Conservatives before or now.
Our (ahem) politicians need their feet held to the fire and see how they do. It's like the debate the other night, they know the questions and they have their answers and they have rehearsed possible disagreements etc. It's like a WWW wrestling match, it's a scam. Put them in an arena, auditorium, hall, whatever and make them answer the Hard questions with no screening and no political spew. Lets see what they're really made of.
Here are all the lies by all parties .... which ones seems achievable and are for the people and not for just Toronto and the GTA
"EVERYTHING depends on Gold Mines and copper etc... EVERYTHING ..."
You are quite correct.
The price of gold and copper determines what happens to folks living in that area - it is generally irrelevant if the Premier represents a party or another. Cost of hydro may go up or down a bit - it will make no difference to employment - price of gold and copper do make a real difference.
"hydro cost is killing Ontario"
The higher cost of hydro in Ontario can be traced back to the election of Mike Harris in 1995.
"The political impetus for restructuring increased with the 1995 election of the Mike Harris government. In that year, Mike Harris commissioned the Macdonald Committee. The committee recommended the elimination of Ontario Hydro's monopoly on managing generation capacity and that the electricity market be opened up to competition. In response to the Macdonald Committee's recommendations, the Ontario government released "Direction for Change: Charting a Course for Competitive Electricity and Jobs in Ontario" in 1997, detailing the government's plans to open the market for electricity supply."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_electricity_policy
More reading on the subject :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydro_One
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Harris
"Ontario Hydro was split into five successor companies (the two largest being Ontario Power Generation and Hydro One, representing generation and distribution of power respectively) with the plan of eventually selling them off. Public opposition to the sale of these money-making government enterprises postponed the government's plans."
Way back to the 1960's Quebec "Maitre chez Nous" (Masters in our own home) campaign was to buy and own all electricity producers in the province under Ontario Quebec. The plan was simple: if the government owns it, it belongs to the people for the benefit of the people.
Under the Conservatives a generation ago, they went the other way: they sold out much of what we own. It would be difficult if not impossible to put the genie back in the bottle.
"Big wigs a flocking away from Ontario due to the overwhelming cost associated with running a business in Ontario ...."
We seem to read a lot of comments about business running away from Ontario during an election campaign. What are the facts? I mean the real facts?
When checking employment information supplied by Stats Canada - province by province - over the last year any fair minded reader will not see businesses "flocking away" from Ontario.
For example, from the most recent monthly release:
Employment in Newfoundland and Labrador declined for the second consecutive month, down 4,100 in May, pushing the unemployment rate up 0.6 percentage points to 12.7%. Compared with 12 months earlier, employment in the province was down 8,900 or 3.8%, the result of declines since the start of 2014.
In Ontario, employment was little changed, leaving employment in the province 39,000 (+0.6%) above the level of May 2013. The unemployment rate was 7.3% in May, the same rate as 12 months earlier.
While employment in Quebec was unchanged in May, there were more people searching for work, pushing the unemployment rate up 0.4 percentage points to 8.0%. On a year-over-year basis, employment in the province was little changed.
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/140606/dq140606a-eng.htm
Things may not be as good as promoted by the government but they are not as bad as claimed by the opposition (those who want to gain power).
"Someone these forums tell me who and why you would vote for to see if my train of thought is correct ..."
Unfortunately, I do not have an answer for you. Basically, about one third of the population wants a right wing administration (Hudak at Queen's Park, Harper in Ottawa) while two thirds does not. However, that majority of voters is divided among several parties (Liberal, NDP, Green).
If that majority divides its votes, the right wing party takes power.
If a large percentage of the population does not "bother" to vote, odds are the right wing party takes power since its supporters seem to have a higher conviction level and want to run things.
I do not have the perfect answer. I wish I did.
