{"id":12475,"date":"2015-11-04T17:17:36","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T22:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=12475"},"modified":"2015-11-04T17:17:36","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T22:17:36","slug":"resident-opposes-sale-of-hydro-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/resident-opposes-sale-of-hydro-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Resident opposes sale of Hydro One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(An open letter to MPP Chris Ballard)<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nI am greatly disturbed that our Premier is taking steps to sell a stake in our Hydro One electric utility despite the government\u2019s own financial auditor stating that it will create a greater debt for Ontario.<br \/>\nThis opinion has been stated by every financial expert that I have read on the long term consequences.<br \/>\nI hope you will not blindly follow such \u201cfolly\u201d. You need to convince others in the Liberal party not to support this.<br \/>\nThis is a boondoggle which eclipses the selling of the 407 which the Liberal party was vehemently opposed to at the time.<br \/>\nOur provincial debt has doubled over the last 10 years under your party with two credit downgrades and this sale will continue our downward economic spiral.<br \/>\nShort term gain will mean long term pain for the people of Ontario and their children.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nShelley Wister<br \/>\nAurora<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(An open letter to MPP Chris Ballard) I am greatly disturbed that our Premier is taking steps to sell a stake in our Hydro One electric utility despite the government\u2019s own financial auditor stating that it will create a greater debt for Ontario. This opinion has been stated by every financial expert that I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}