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Doug Ford's first act as Premier

4/14/2018

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According to Doug Ford, his first act will be to fire the “$6 million dollar man,” the current CEO of Hydro One.
If we depart from the Trump-style simple-mindedness and contemplate reality for a moment, that first act will actually require several steps to complete. As a minimum, these will involve:
  1. Asking the Board of Hydro One to fire the CEO.
  2. Taking steps to fire the Board members if they fail to comply.
  3. Appointing a new Board.
  4. Asking the new Board (presumably with more success this time) to fire the CEO.
  5. Paying an estimated $10 million severance package to the fired CEO.
  6. Hiring a new CEO (at a salary less than $6 million one assumes).
  7. Figuring out how to reduce electricity costs when the new CEO heads up an agency responsible for the transmission of energy, not its production.
So much for decisive action on electricity costs if Ford were to become Premier.

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    C. Richard Tindal, Ph.D is a retired Professor of Government. He taught for 30 years at St. Lawrence College, Kingston and was an occasional Visiting Professor at Queen's University. He has also written and consulted extensively about government.

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