To the editor:
‘Sorry boss I got caught speeding on my way to work, but it’s nice you are giving me an increase to pay the fine. After all we can just pass that cost on to our customers. The shareholders need never know that I made a mistake."
Does this sound a little unlikely?
Not if you are an energy supplier in Ontario.
What is the point of a fine if the cost can simply be passed on to the people you ripped off in the first place? Liberal energy policy is pricing this province out of business and we can’t survive on government-sector wages without someone somewhere paying taxes on real earned income from production, transportation, distribution and maintenance of the first three.
In the board’s recent decision they say it is unreasonable to expect the shareholders to shoulder the costs of these fines, but in most cases the shareholders and the consumers of the services are the same people.
It would seem instead that this is more an exercise of management trying to maintain profit margins and thus their bloated wages and bonuses.
No lights or heat soon.
John Brewer,
Thunder?Bay
‘Sorry boss I got caught speeding on my way to work, but it’s nice you are giving me an increase to pay the fine. After all we can just pass that cost on to our customers. The shareholders need never know that I made a mistake."
Does this sound a little unlikely?
Not if you are an energy supplier in Ontario.
What is the point of a fine if the cost can simply be passed on to the people you ripped off in the first place? Liberal energy policy is pricing this province out of business and we can’t survive on government-sector wages without someone somewhere paying taxes on real earned income from production, transportation, distribution and maintenance of the first three.
In the board’s recent decision they say it is unreasonable to expect the shareholders to shoulder the costs of these fines, but in most cases the shareholders and the consumers of the services are the same people.
It would seem instead that this is more an exercise of management trying to maintain profit margins and thus their bloated wages and bonuses.
No lights or heat soon.
John Brewer,
Thunder?Bay
