Soaring Hydro Rates

The Provincial NDP is continuing its attack on the McGuinty Liberals over the issue of soaring hydro rates.

The McGuinty Government has rejected an NDP Motion to take the HST off of hydro.

At Queen's Park Tuesday, leader Andrea Horwath raised the concerns of two area residents.

"They just can't make ends meet anymore," she said. "They're just unable to have a positive outlook for the future because costs are just too high. And we're saying to the government there's an easy straight forward way of addressing this where people don't have to jump through hoops applying for tax credits and things. You can make some real impact on their monthly bills by just taking the HST off of their monthly hydro bills."

Horwath noted that families are seeing their hydro bills skyrocket now that winter is fast approaching.