Ontario's New Democrats are launching a campaign to force the government to take the provincial portion of the H-S-T off hydro bills.
Speaking in the legislature, Kenora-Rainy River MPP Howard Hampton says seniors especially, are struggling to pay their electricity bills.
"Families in northwestern Ontario are being squeezed by skyrocketing hydro bills," says Hampton. "Mary Ellen Cooper from Thunder Bay writes: “We are going to be hurt—big time—with the HST.... My pension hardly covers my expenses. When is McGuinty going to open his door and look at the hungry people of this province, of the city of Thunder Bay where the mills are closed and” people “are out of work? Where families have lost everything. It is time McGuinty gave his head a shake.”
The NDP has created a website and Leader Andrea Horwath is planning to tour the province to promote the cause.
