Ontario Hydro Debt Reduction Charge

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Ontario residents currently pay a debt retirement charge, a charge per kilowatt hour of electricity consumed that is added to electricity bills to help pay down the stranded debt of the former Ontario Hydro. This $0.0070 per kilowatt-hour surcharge is added to every customers monthly utility bill.

In his annual report delivered on December 5, 2006, Ontario Auditor General Jim McCarter announced that among a number of questionable expenditures was $127 million worth of goods and services using corporate charge cards, but with few slips or receipts to justify the charges.

We the undersigned agree that a $127 million adjustment needs to be made to compensate consumers for this unapproved use of taxpayer money, either by directly removing it from the current outstanding residual stranded debt or by a reduction of the monthly debt retirement charge.

128177 Signatures

  • Dave Gillingham
    • City
    • Orillia
  • Nicole
    • City
    • London
  • Gord Pennell
    • City
    • London
  • John Pennell
    • City
    • Brampton
  • Sarah Gillingham
    • City
    • Orillia
  • Mary Kutchaw
    • City
    • Sudbury
  • Maryam Kermani
    • City
    • London
  • Ray Mantle
    • City
    • London, Ontario
  • Lou Howe
    • City
    • Victoria Harbor
    • Comments
    • Terminate theives
  • alvin pennell
    • City
    • brampton
  • Lucy...Leach
    • City
    • Sudbury
    • Comments
    • rates are to high
  • Joan Colquhoun
    • City
    • Port Colborne,On.
    • Comments
    • what about the CEO that put us more in debt??????
  • Dwight Fryer
    • City
    • Monetville
    • Comments
    • Why should we pay for the mistakes and wasteful practices of others?
  • david cowan
    • City
    • thamesford
    • Comments
    • twice now, do they get another swing???
  • chris kutchaw
    • City
    • Sudbury
  • Michelle Skorupa
    • City
    • Brampton
  • michelle janson
    • City
    • Orillia
  • Tania Tindall
    • City
    • Baysville
  • marie ryckman
    • City
    • Holland Landing
  • sandy pitcher
    • City
    • toronto
    • Comments
    • disgusted in the mis-use of taxpayers money.
  • terence waring
    • City
    • mississauga
    • Comments
    • wow, you guys suck
  • John Mac Neil
    • City
    • Brampton
    • Comments
    • after the government ignored the problems of privatization that occured in the US, I doubt that they will even read this.
  • Kim Schekene
    • City
    • Orillia
  • vince Dibattista
    • City
    • BRAMPTON
    • Comments
    • REALLY TIRED OF IT!!!!!
  • Mike Seymour
    • City
    • Baysville, On.
  • John Dyment
    • City
    • Severn Bridge
  • Brad Solman
    • City
    • Burlington
  • amanda
    • City
    • baysville
  • Trisha Jordan
    • City
    • Hamilton
  • joe hanophy
    • City
    • toronto
  • Rosanna Carenza
    • City
    • Etobicoke
  • Richard McLaughlin
    • City
    • Maple, On
  • dan mcintee
    • City
    • washago
    • Comments
    • why is noone paying down my debt
  • Michael Zupo
    • City
    • Toronto
    • Comments
    • Make the Executives pay it
  • STAN MACKINNON
    • City
    • BAYSVILLE ONT
  • Joe Perna
    • City
    • toronto
  • David Lee
    • City
    • Toronto
    • Comments
    • I think this is only fair
  • Allan Nason
    • City
    • Hamilton
  • Caryll
    • City
    • Toronto
  • Mr.&Mrs Poto
    • City
    • Toronto
    • Comments
    • Give us back our money OR get rid of the charge.
  • Robert Dolby
    • City
    • Thornhill
  • Barry Hebden
    • City
    • Hornings Mills
  • Richard Hubbert
    • City
    • Barrie
    • Comments
    • The fact that there is waste to this extent with no effective management oversight, is disgusting. It is not unreasonable to expect the Provincial government make every effort to recover these funds, and if appropriate, insure criminal charges are laid.
  • grayce blair
    • City
    • toronto
  • jamie harrington
    • City
    • washago
  • ute seebauer
    • City
    • severn bridge
  • hugh muir
    • City
    • kitchener
    • Comments
    • n/a
  • Brunovm
    • City
    • Toronto
    • Comments
    • What a joke
  • Kieran Kerr
    • City
    • Kitchener.
  • Rose Milson
    • City
    • Toronto
    • Comments
    • Stop making us pay!