New Auditor’s Report on Cancelling Cost of Ontario Gas Plant

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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A special audit report concluded by a new auditor general of the province is anticipated to be unveiled on Tuesday, which is expected to surpass the already estimated $585-million price tag for the cancellation of two energy projects in Ontario. The previous auditor general’s report on the Liberal government’s decision to cancel a partially built gas plant in Mississauga amid their 2011 election campaign placed the estimated cost of that project at $275 million, which turned out to be $85 million more than what the Liberals were claiming.

Whereas, the report of recently appointed auditor general, Bonnie Lysyk, is anticipated to include minute detailed cost of cancelling a gas plant in Oakville and moving it to Kingston area, which the Liberals estimated to be at $40 million, but the Ontario Power Authority estimated at $310 million. It has already been indicated by the new auditor general that same criteria will be used from the Mississauga plant report, as was previously used in examining the cost of cancelling the Oakville plant, signifying that he might even lower the projected savings that the government claimed for the 20-year contract with the plant’s developers.

Complaining about the recently arisen issue, Progressive Conservative energy critic, Lisa MacLeod, mentioned that “they (Liberals) have at every single instance tried to prevent us from getting the true costs.” She further added that “this strikes at the very heart of our democracy, if a government can spend hundreds of millions of dollars to save seats in an election.”

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