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Oct 28, 2026
Stephen StaleySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The mayor, in contrast, closed the campaign with a solid week of lies that Bradford wanted to privatize Toronto's drinking water, which was both false and nearly impossible, even if he had wanted to, including a stunt appearance with David Suzuki.
Stephen StaleySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Bradford had proposed turning Toronto Water into a corporation owned by the city, the same arrangement under which Torontonians have owned Toronto Hydro since 1999, so the city could borrow for new pipes and cut everyone's bill.
Stephen StaleySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Ontario law forbids private ownership of such a utility, which did not prevent Chow from repeating the charge ad nauseum in the campaign's closing days.
Stephen StaleySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Mencken saw this coming too.
Greg BradyHOST
The water thing was ridiculous.
Greg BradyHOST
Brad's got a sense of humor about how they portrayed the water changes to billing and to ownership to make it more like Toronto Hydro.
Greg BradyHOST
And yet at the same time, maybe, I said it yesterday, maybe that wasn't the best of strategies because you open it up for the chow campaign to be quite disingenuous about this.
Ariella KimmelGUEST
Yeah, see you on that side of the border
Oct 28 · 4 Mentions
John MooreHOST
I'm curious about your thoughts on the provincial government coming up with a new regime, I guess we could say, for electrical utilities, and I trust you can explain this better than I can.
John ToryHOST
Well, the start of the explanation is that in Toronto, there is a separate entity called Toronto Hydro from which you get your bill.
John ToryHOST
And they don't produce energy.
John ToryHOST
They don't have plants or things like that, but they buy it from Ontario Hydro and then an Ontario Power Generation.
John ToryHOST
And so what the province is saying and this is back to that chapter where the province can Bigfoot cities on anything and by the way I'm not upset about this one.
John ToryHOST
I don't think people should be lighting their hair on fire.
John ToryHOST
They are saying that entities like Toronto Hydro should have more transparent governance and should have a test they have to pass before they pay a dividend, because quite often, almost always, these entities like Toronto Hydro pay a dividend to their owner, who is the city of Toronto.
John ToryHOST
I think, to be frank with you, I think a lot of this is common sense that they're planning to do.
Oct 28 · 2 Mentions
John MooreHOST
What does that mean?
Tim HudakGUEST
Well, basically, our local utilities, right, like Toronto Hydro, for example, or Niagara Peninsula Energy, you know, back in Niagara, there are about 60 of these across the province.
Tim HudakGUEST
They're the ones that get the power to your house through those large lines you see along highways.
Tim HudakGUEST
And the problem, John, is that so many are small, like rinky-dink to get that old term back out there, that they can't properly invest and create a modern hydro system.
Tim HudakGUEST
I like Brad's idea.
Tim HudakGUEST
I wrote an op-ed about it in The Star a little while ago.
Tim HudakGUEST
No, that was for public utilities just like we have in Toronto Hydro.
Tim HudakGUEST
I think it was a better way to actually ensure we have long-term investment and get the cost of buying a home down because right now we pay it all through development
Oct 28 · 1 Mention
John MooreHOST
We're not giving it to a private corporation.
John MooreHOST
We're creating an entity in the same model that we have with Toronto Hydro.
Olivia ChowSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
No, it's not.
Olivia ChowSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It's totally different legislation.
Daniel FochHOST
We're seeing this a lot with Multiplex guys.
Daniel FochHOST
We had Toronto Hydro sponsor our Multiplex event in Toronto.
Daniel FochHOST
Hydro ends up being like your electrical service ends up being one of the biggest in this because- If you're going to run a standard little mini split, most homes in Canada are on a 100 amp service.
Daniel FochHOST
100 amps should do fine for that as long as the rest of your homes load.
6 MINS LATER
Nick HillHOST
That's the number that the heat pump has to beat here, right? So one meter cubed of gas is about 10.36 kilowatt hours through 95% of a furnace, about 9.8 kilowatt hours of heat electricity.
Nick HillHOST
Last November, 9.8, 15.7, that equaled about 20.3 cents.
Nick HillHOST
Toronto Hydro delivers and regulates over under 2.9 cents on top of your HST.
Nick HillHOST
And the Ontario Electricity Rebate, 13.1 to 23.5% last November.
Jerry AgarHOST
An interesting back and forth in this election cycle between current mayor Olivia Chow and would-be mayor Brad Bradford has to do with water and how we handle water for the city of Toronto.
Jerry AgarHOST
Brad Bradford wants to do something that has been described as very much like Toronto Hydro.
Jerry AgarHOST
and Olivia Chow and the people who are front and center campaigning for her are sounding the alarm.
Jerry AgarHOST
He's going to privatize water.
Jerry AgarHOST
having me.
Jerry AgarHOST
Well, thanks for doing this.
Jerry AgarHOST
Is Brad Bradford right that what he wants to do would be analogous to Toronto Hydro or not?
Danny PersaudGUEST
Well, I can't speak to the details of the claims of Mr. Bradford, but I can speak to my experience with the public water utility.
Greg BradyHOST
Yeah, I would say that.
Greg BradyHOST
So you weighed in on, I don't know if it's a full-throated defense of the Bradford proposal to restructure Toronto water as a public utility similar to Toronto Hydro.
Greg BradyHOST
But you're very involved, obviously.
Greg BradyHOST
All the mayors are in the Association of Municipalities of Ontario.
John MooreHOST
control it.
John MooreHOST
We're creating an entity in the same model that we have with Toronto Hydro.
John MooreHOST
No,
Olivia ChowGUEST
it's not.
John MooreSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
it.
John MooreSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We're creating an entity in the same model that we have with Toronto Hydro.
Olivia ChowSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
No, it's not.
Olivia ChowSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It's totally different.
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