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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:15.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Okay – tell me if I’m sounding paranoid here. But based on what I just read (below) in the Ontario government’s climate change report from 2015 about liability, it occurred to me that they’re selling off Hydro One to avoid potential lawsuits due to inaction on climate change. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:15.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:15.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Or is this just me?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:15.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Susan K <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:15.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:15.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Page 10 <a href="https://eco.on.ca/reports/2015-climate-change-report-feeling-the-heat/">https://eco.on.ca/reports/2015-climate-change-report-feeling-the-heat/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:15.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:15.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The courts have found that Ontario’s crown corporation Hydro One has a duty to deliver electricity safely and that the former Ontario Hydro had a duty to have adequate emergency response systems in place.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>26<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:15.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Similarly, the provincial government has been found to have a responsibility to protect against hazards from electrical infrastructure <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:15.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>on provincially owned land that may cause physical harm to members of the public.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>27<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:15.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>As extreme weather events increase, the province will face greater potential liability, both via its ownership of electricity transmission assets and as an owner of land where electrical infrastructure is installed, from weather-related electrical hazards.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>28 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>