May 14, 2009 will be a day that will surely go down in Ontario history.  As 54 democratically elected Liberal and 5 NDP MPPs voted in favour of the Green Energy Act, a new era of government was ushered in. This huge piece of legislation entailed the opening up and restructuring of 15 existing acts including the Environmental Protection Act, the Environmental Bill of Rights act, and  the Public lands Act.  One must ask why was such a massive and important piece of regressive legislation, that would remove the democratic rights of rural citizens and necessitate the bastardization of existing acts, be pushed through in a matter of days? Our own Auditor General expressed how the Ontario people are “Over-Paying” 2.7 Billion more than the market rate of electricity….how can we sit idly by allowing them to increase our rates to the highest rates anywhere in North America?

As our…