Re: “Can't kick the cat..”

John Jarvis | Oct 13, 2016

In reference to Edie Cairns’ letter titled "Can’t kick the cat..." (Frontenac News, October 6, 2016), unfortunately I *have* seen people commit this crime, but what I think she is trying to say doesn't really have much to do with the true facts of the situation of life in Ontario.

For starters, the majority doesn't, (or at least shouldn't), blame "the guys with the orange hats" for the insane prices that we have to pay just to keep our lights turned on in Ontario. For my household of self, wife, and 3 sons, (and one of the boys has 2 children), it has been $846.66 per month for 10 straight months with no relief in sight. Yes folks, that would be more than $10,000 per year just to keep the lights turned on!

Oh, but the government *is* giving us an 8% tax break in January, right? God only knows how much the carbon tax is going to cost us to take the place of that particular "break"!

$846.66 per month is more than I was actually earning working a full-time job 18 years before these 18 years in question, (1998 through 2016).

The "renewal notices for my driver’s licence and the tag for my car" are not priced by Hydro One, they are priced by Kathleen Wynne’s government! Oh no, ... it is *not* the workers that we are blaming. It's Kathleen Wynne and the Liberal government.

About ... "this has created new jobs and Canadian industries"? This must be a delusion, because another *fact* is that according to Stats Can in an article from Sunny Freeman of The Star in July of 2016, "the Canadian economy saw the biggest monthly drop in full-time work in several years".

Stats Canada also said that Ontario suffered the biggest job losses of all provinces in July with its labour market decreasing by 36,000 positions, and that 18,900 of those jobs were full time.

Are Hydro One workers "Parasitic minions for Hydro One"? Naw. It's just that Hydro One has become parasitic minions for the Ontario Liberals!

Sorry Ms. Cairns but when it comes to the reality of life where we live, I think it a better option to believe Kevin O'Leary's take on the subject than yours. (Let's keep the facts as the facts)?