OEB

A promise to regulate the price you pay at the pump.

In a virtual call Friday, NDP leader Andrea Horwath stated that both the PC’s and Liberals want to have short term and unsustainable plans of cutting a portion of gas and fuel taxes.

Horwath is continuing the campaign on Zoom after announcing on Thursday that she had tested positive for COVID-19.

The plan, if her party forms government, would see the regulation happen through the Ontario Energy Board (OEB) on a weekly basis, instead of gas companies deciding the price for buyers, which rolls down to consumers filling up at the pumps.

The Ontario PC’s have vowed to bring in a pump reduction of 5.7 cents a litre for six months, beginning July 1st.

Del Duca’s Liberal plan is to reduce prices by 11 cents per litre on the gas and fuel tax (five cents respectively).

Horwath also addressed the ongoing water crisis in the north as well as the growing housing crisis.

She noted it’s been “a game of ping-pong” from recent provincial governments to the federal government, and back again on who’s responsible for improving living conditions for rural communities.

The NDP leader spoke about being able to provide a level living dignity to those living on First Nation’s communities as well as in the larger urban areas of Ontario’s north.

Advance polls are open this weekend with election day set for Thursday June 2nd.