[All] Hydro One question for GREN

[Eleanor Grant]

Hi Temara & all -

I'm not sure what revenue tools the NDP has said No to - can you fill us in?

One thing for sure - selling off ASSETS isn't REVENUE.

The NDP (and all of us) need to shake our fear of the word "tax".
Corporate taxes have been lowered way more than is necessary to prevent the
flight of capital - we need to start inching them back up.

Tell business leaders: if you want to reduce road congestion, and if you
want to be able to recruit talent and have them be more mobile, then you
have to put more into the public purse.

That's my 2¢,

Eleanor
 On 6 Jun 2015 15:37, <temara.brown at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ask‎ them to suggest an alternative revenue tool to fund transit and to
> put it on the table as an alternative to selling off Hydro One. The NDP has
> said no to every proposed revenue tool. But if you want to say you support
> investing in transit, you actually need a plan to pay for it!!
>
> *Temara Brown*
>
>   *From: *Louisette Lanteigne
> *Sent: *Saturday, June 6, 2015 2:31 PM
> *To: *GREN >
> *Reply To: *Louisette Lanteigne
> *Subject: *[All] Hydro One question for GREN
>
> Hi Gren folks
>
> I have the chance to meet with Andrea Horwath and Catherine Fife on
> Tuesday to discuss the sale of Hydro One.
>
> Does GREN have a position on this matter? If so I can relay a document on
> our behalf.
>
> The primary concern I have personally is that in Canada, divesting is
> tricky because most major Green Infrastructure projects are actually being
> funded by Big Oil. Enbridge, TransCanada etc. Here is a CBC story about
> this:
>
> http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/difficult-to-invest-in-green-energy-in-canada-without-big-oil-1.3100233
>
> Big oil can move their funds from green funds to oil ventures. Ontario
> Hydro makes 6 billion in tax revenues. Currently it is sustainable energy
> but the Liberals want to sell of 60% of it and they are keeping the deal
> secret. We need to speak up on this one.
>
> Lulu
>
>
>
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