Indirect Misenergy
You know what I'd like the media to do? I'd like the media to find out who benefitted and how from the Old New Conservative Party of Ontario's break up of the energy sector with the resultant popping up of seemingly fly-by-night gas distribution companies.
Because that whole fiasco, as far as I'm concerned, is a symbol of Mike Harris's Ontario - corporate thuggery with absolutely no consumer protection offered up by the government we all pay for because we assume it is there for all citizens and not just a bunch of corporate thug buddies of whatever group of politicos happens to be in power.
It can't just be me who remembers those guys who looked like they might be awol carnies or day parolees going door-to-door with name tags like "P-20569" and clipboards with nothing on them but a bunch of forged signatures demanding to see your gas bill: "Hey lady, show me you fuckin' gas bill! I gotta see if you got yer fuckin' rebate!"
Now, I'm not totally opposed to free enterprise, I just have a problem with corruption and fraud and last I looked, there was a lot of corruption and fraud going on with all these sleazy overnight operations run out of offices that didn't appear to be on any "legitimate" city maps. Believe me. I tried to get to one of them to discuss having been signed up, unawares, to have my gas delivered by a company that was not the company who had delivered my gas before Mike Harris et al came along to run the province into the ground.
And surely it's not just my imagination that there was a line-up of consumers as long as the Family Compact has been in power complaining about having been bilked - BILKED - out of money because they'd been signed up without due process - or in many cases, without their knowledge - at the door by people who were no longer on the payroll of whatever gas distribution company had sent them door-to-door in the first place.
So, c'mon. It's still going on because I saw a couple of those guys the other day. At first I thought they were Rogers employees trying to get into an apartment building to harass people to sign up for cell phones because lots of apartment dwellers have "no junk mail" put on their mailboxes so that Rogers can't just stuff their mailboxes full of unsolicited mail anymore such that there's no room for any legitimate mail, but alas, no such luck. They were from one of those gas redistribution companies.
Anyway, it would be nice to know what really went down and continues to go down with that scam because I want to know and I'm sure a lot of other Ontarians would like to know the names of any politicians currently active in politics who might have been involved with ALL THAT.
