First, we will eliminate the HST on hydro bills. The HST has made life unaffordable for many families, particularly when hydro rates were already soaring. We will remove the provincial portion of the HST from these bills.
Second, we will remove the HST from the cost of home heating. We live in Canada, where heating our homes isn’t a luxury. Increasing the cost with a tax increase in unfair. We will remove the provincial portion of the HST from every home heating bill, like natural gas, home heating oil and propane.
And third, we will remove the so-called ‘Debt Retirement Charge’ from hydro bills. The full amount of the debt this charge was supposed to retire was collected by 2010 – yet the McGuinty government extended it to 2018. We will remove it from residential hydro bills.