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Ontario sticks with head-in-the-sand energy policy

11th Feb 2006, 14:08 GMT

Aldous Huxley said ''Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.'' He could have been talking about the dim bulbs in charge of Ontario's energy policy. The fact is the province is desperately short of electricity. Dalton (Blackout) McGuinty, Ontario's Premier, and his energy gnome Donna Cansfield chose to ignore this fact with a bizarre decision that encourages more consumption and less supply. And it does so at taxpayers' expense. (INSIDER Edition subscribers only)

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