The move comes weeks after Ontario PC Party Leader Doug Ford said he would fire the CEO and board of directors at the partially privatized utility if his party is elected on June 7.

Glenn Thibeault says concerns raised by Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk during testimony before a legislative committee aren't new and the practices being used by the Independent Electricity System Operator are common in other jurisdictions and endorsed by major auditing firms.

Hydro One wanted to be able to raise its transmission rates by 4.8 per cent in 2018.

The Liberal government has tapped Richard Dicerni, a former head of Ontario Power Generation, to lead a year-long review of the Ontario Energy Board.

Earlier this year, one company complained that the government was politicizing utility bills.

Gilles Bisson will introduce a bill next week that would allow the Ontario Energy Board to control both the retail price and wholesale mark-up of petroleum products in the province.

The government says the Fair Hydro Plan has variables programmed in it to allow for changes in energy consumption and prices, but the debt will still remain and getting consumers to pay it will be tough if there are other better cheaper options.

Sorbara and Lougheed were accused of offering Liberal candidate hopeful Andrew Olivier a position to step down for Wynne’s preferred candidate (now Energy Minister Glenn Thibeault) in a 2015 Sudbury byelection.

Ontarians have been given the true costs of Kathleen Wynne’s Green Energy Act refinance (the Fair Energy Act) and it is as ugly as experts predicted many years ago.

A set of radio ads this year have told listeners that people would receive an average of 25 per cent off their hydro bills this summer and rate increases are being held to inflation for four years.