{"id":9064,"date":"2018-09-30T18:13:10","date_gmt":"2018-09-30T22:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=9064"},"modified":"2018-09-30T18:13:10","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T22:13:10","slug":"the-pc-governments-inexcusable-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=9064","title":{"rendered":"The PC government&#8217;s inexcusable situation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Summary<\/strong><br \/>\nOntario&#8217;s debt is more than $338 billion dollars and getting worse. Ontario can save at least $70M dollars by stopping the proposed hydro-electric generating station at the Bala falls, and the government can save hundreds\u00a0of millions, and even billions of dollars more of our tax dollars by stopping other Liberal &#8220;green energy&#8221; projects that would make power that the Ontario government <a href=\"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=8988\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">now confirms isn&#8217;t needed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>E-mail Premier Doug Ford at <a href=\"mailto:Premier@ontario.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Premier@ontario.ca<\/a><\/strong> and tell him he needs to <a href=\"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=8980\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">keep his promise<\/a> and stop the proposed Bala project because Ontario&#8217;s already has too much\u00a0debt. <strong>Be sure to ask for a reply<\/strong>.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ontario&#8217;s debt<\/strong><br \/>\nDid you know that the province of <strong>Ontario is $338 billion dollars in debt<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 more than any other province or state in the world. And this debt will increase by more than $15 billion dollars\u00a0this year.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This year Ontario will pay more than $12 billion dollars just for the interest on this debt.<\/li>\n<li>Without this debt, Ontario could have used the $12 billion dollars to increase Ontario&#8217;s education budget by 50% or improve health care or meet other government obligations\u00a0\u2013\u00a0being in debt is a waste of our tax dollars.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yet in Bala, Premier Doug Ford plans on increasing Ontario&#8217;s debt by <strong>paying a Liberal donor $70M dollars for power Ontario doesn&#8217;t need<\/strong>. To pay down Ontario&#8217;s debt, the\u00a0government is considering <a href=\"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=9052\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">selling the LCBO<\/a> or another profitable Crown corporation.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The government could actually do such a stupid short-sighted thing just to reduce their annual debt, as this is exactly what the Liberals did in 2017 when they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/report-on-business\/industry-news\/energy-and-resources\/hydro-one-sale-will-lead-to-long-term-costs-for-ontario-watchdog\/article37946361\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sold more than half of Hydro One<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It would be wrong to sell Ontario&#8217;s Crown Corporations just to pay private developers for power that isn&#8217;t needed.<\/p>\n<p>It is time for Premier Ford to keep his promise and save at least $70 million dollars by stopping the proposed hydro-electric generating station at the Bala falls.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Bala falls needs your help<\/strong><br \/>\nIf you want to stop the &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ontario government from paying at least $70M dollars of your tax dollars to a private developer for power that isn&#8217;t needed.<\/li>\n<li>Construction of a hydro-electric generating station that could not be operated safely with the current approvals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Then the Bala falls needs your help.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Doug Ford said: <em>&#8220;Projects like this are hurting our province and costing taxpayers billions of dollars, all to benefit the political insiders, the political elites&#8221;<\/em>, and that <em>&#8220;This project stinks of political interest and insider deals&#8221;<\/em>.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>It is now time to e-mail Premier Ford at <a href=\"mailto:Premier@ontario.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Premier@ontario.ca<\/a> and let him know &#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He was given <a href=\"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=9003\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">incorrect information<\/a> when he claimed it would be too expensive for him to <a href=\"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=8980\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">keep his promise<\/a> to stop this proposed project.<\/li>\n<li>The province can save millions, and even billions of dollars by stopping these long-term contracts now.<\/li>\n<li>That to <a href=\"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=9057\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reduce Ontario&#8217;s deficit<\/a> he must stop <em>&#8220;the scam&#8221;<\/em> deals, and that SaveTheBalaFalls.com has the information on how to do this without the risk of being sued.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Be\u00a0sure to\u00a0ask for a reply<\/strong>.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>To learn more &#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=8980\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read what Doug Ford promised<\/a> on February 27, 2018, when he visited Bala.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=8988\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the incorrect information<\/a> the Premier was given, when he reneged on this promise.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=9034\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the broad media coverage<\/a> of the Premier reneging on his promise, including by the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, and CTV Barrie.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=9003\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read how stopping the proposed Bala project<\/a> would save at least $70 million dollars.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=9017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read how the <em>&#8220;big hole in the ground&#8221;<\/em><\/a> is not a problem.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=9052\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read that it would be wrong and unnecessary<\/a> to sell OPG or the LCBO to pay down the Liberal&#8217;s wasteful spending.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=9057\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read that other parts of the Ontario government are trying to cut costs<\/a>, why won&#8217;t Premier Ford do what he can.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary Ontario&#8217;s debt is more than $338 billion dollars and getting worse. Ontario can save at least $70M dollars by stopping the proposed hydro-electric generating station at the Bala falls, and the government can save hundreds\u00a0of millions, and even billions of dollars more of our tax dollars by stopping other Liberal &#8220;green energy&#8221; projects that <a href='https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/?p=9064' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-background","category-3-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9064"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9066,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9064\/revisions\/9066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savethebalafalls.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}