Ford government is blocking jobs and raising electricity rates

November 18, 2025

QUEEN'S PARK — In question period today, Mike Schreiner demanded the Ford government commit to bringing down electricity prices and creating jobs by investing in renewables.

“Times are tough.

Over 700,000 Ontarians are unemployed.

And now electricity prices are up a whopping 29 per cent. 

Our province can create good-paying jobs and reduce electricity prices right now if this government ends its ideological opposition to the fast-growing global green energy sector.

I spent last week visiting Ontario-based companies that are creating generational jobs right NOW. They’re unlocking prosperity in the $8 trillion clean energy economy by building and installing renewables like wind and solar. 

But to grow jobs they need a government that has their back.

Greens call on the Premier to say NO to increasing electricity prices with US-fueled gas plants and high-cost American SMRs, and say YES to good-paying, generational jobs with made-in-Ontario low cost renewables”

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