Ontario Hydro

Jerry Gallagher was one of them, one of these post-war Irish immigrants who arrived in the early 50s.

He went initially to Burlington as he was hired by Ontario Hydro as a laborer to build a hydro station over there and knew very little bit about unions.

But he was the kind of person who... stood up to injustices and somebody who was primed to act more than most.

And we saw that they were not being paid as much as the other hydro workers in Niagara Peninsula who were unionized.

Not true.

My father worked at Ontario Hydro where I'm sure there was helium.

So maybe there's a layer of truth to that.

I'm going to stick to it.

Oh, yes.

An incredible gentleman from nearby Verona who would, when called by Ontario Hydro or any of the tree companies that they were cutting down various types of trees, he would go and harvest those, particularly pine boards, and make these lovely pine birdhouses.

And the knot holes from the tree, he would try and incorporate as the entrance for the bird into the birdhouse.

Oh, that is so cool.

It is a good idea, and it was a conservative idea.

Ontario Hydro, the Canada National Railway, the Bank of Canada, the CBC, these were all conservative ideas, originally Tory ideas.

And of course, there's the We don't believe in rugged individualism, and we can talk about the difference between liberal individualism and more of a much more conservative paternalistic communitarianism.

We're in this together.

One thing I'd like to do, and I think they're doing that, is just having more... inspections of possible trees, understanding with the rain that we had this year, a lot of trees grew faster than they normally would, so they had more weight on the tree canopy, which caused branches that were a little bit weaker to pass the threshold and break.

Another really important thing is lobbying Ontario Hydro.

The one line that comes through Lincoln When we have electrical storms, it trips.

The breakers trip on the towers.

Unfortunately, these are older breakers that Ontario Hydro really needs to fix so that problem doesn't happen.

The

problem is it takes too long to reset them.

Air Canada's thriving.

You know, we have Ontario Hydro, private...

You know, it's a, it's a monopoly, and it, and it's, you know, it's, it's, it's basically run as a monopoly, and it's doing well.

So I think that, you know, the, the model is, you know, a change is gonna happen.

So my conclusion is that Canada is no longer a country based on the rule of law.

Whether the law applies to you or not, depends on associated factors like what demographic you belong to or what cause is attached to your act or where you are connected how far you are from the nucleus of political power and this goes way back I'll give you an example from around 2007 when there was an investigative report I believe it was done by Toronto Star by then they were still doing real journalism where Ontario Hydro employees had misused their company credit cards for personal expenses to the tune of $127 million.

Right? Including, and this misuse had been going on for years.

And then it was, it came out in a report, audit report or something, and then the media dug into that.

You're fully permitted.

You're on Ontario Hydro.

You're off the highway.

Rock competency is amazing.