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post got deleted-- Posted by: johnnycomelately9
In reply to: None Date:3/23/2015 2:50:07 PM
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Just checked the CFO's Facebook and see he signed this. People here claiming ICBT is printing shares and a scam once claimed he was a figure of Garth's imagination. How many of y'all remember that? Anyways the fact that he's signing petitions should prove beyond a doubt that he's a real person and in Quebec yes? Maybe PM him yourself if you aren't getting your ICBT questions answered?

https://www.change.org/p/ministre-de-l-%C3%A9...ail-no_msg

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Electricity rates are increasing all the time, much faster than the cost of living. We all feel the effects. Hydro-Québec nevertheless made ??big profit: $ 1.2 billion for six years!

These rates, increasing, become regressive tax. Is it not immoral to overtax an essential service?

Mostly these are households with low and modest incomes who feel the worst repercussions, due to the greater proportion of their budget they provide heating and because they occupy less well-insulated homes. It is therefore the less rich who are most severely affected by the increases.

We should be proud: we thought and produced a technology that has something to envy in many countries. We worked hard, we paid top dollar to hit harnessed rivers, dreams and big budgets. All because we thought it was worth it, we could then reap the benefits collectively.

I see poverty around me. If I have trouble paying all when I'm not in a very precarious situation, how others do they do? I do not understand why we have built this collective tool so valuable if not to put it in service to the community by offering us to ourselves affordable electricity rates?

I am a recently separated mother. Although I have a very responsible consumer behavior, I still have to have a large enough housing to accommodate my children. I do not want to jeopardize their health or mine. For that, you have to heat, cook, clean ... .without about the comfort that is valuable too. I can not go below a certain temperature. There's a minimum, would still not as pipes burst! Therefore I request a freeze on residential rates for Hydro-Québec.

If we want more revenue for the government, we have given ourselves a tax system that is more progressive. If the government wants to increase state revenues, it increases taxes. But if he is not willing to do, it does not attempt to disguise ourselves a tax increase by increasing our Hydro bill!

Today, we must be able to reap what you sow. Ask a freeze residential rates for Hydro-Québec.



Letter to
Minister of Energy and Natural Resources
WHEREAS the price of heritage pool electricity to Hydro Quebec was thawed 1 January 2014, resulting in an increase of the electricity bill for all Quebec households; WHEREAS the energy of heritage pool electricity Hydro-Québec will have access to which its Québec customers is reduced by Bill 28, which is the Act respecting mainly the implementation of certain provisions of the Budget Speech of June 4, 2014 and for the return to equilibrium budget in 2015-2016; WHEREAS Hydro-Québec conducted from 2009 to 2014, more than $ 1 billion in profits in excess of fair and reasonable return determined by the Régie, and to the detriment its Québec customers; WHEREAS the decision of the Régie to return to Québec customers of Hydro-Québec returns surplus is suspended by Bill 28; WHEREAS Hydro-Québec eg made more than $ 200 million in excess profits during the cold winter in 2014, selling electricity from its dams at exorbitant prices to its Québec customers; WHEREAS all previous statements just increase the annual increases required by Hydro-Québec to the Régie; WHEREAS households with low and modest incomes are the most affected by increases in electricity rates, for the payment of the electricity bill accounts for a much larger proportion of their budget than the average Quebec households; WHEREAS households with low and modest incomes are most affected by rising prices because they usually remain in poorly insulated homes, whose heating equipment deteriorated; WHEREAS 'in 2014, Hydro-Québec has made ??a record disconnections, and more than 51,000 households and families will have been without electricity; WHEREAS Hydro Québec has made ??record profits of $ 3.0 billion in 2013 , 80% were paid by the Québec customers; WHEREAS the primary mission of our corporation has been diverted to make the most profit possible rather than to offer Quebec households electrical service at affordable rates ; WHEREAS the fact inflate the Hydro-Québec rates to finance the state is a regressive tax and it is immoral to tax an essential service; We, the undersigned, we request a freeze on residential rates Hydro Quebec

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