Green energy job claims are a farce

Lorrie Goldstein continues to call out the Ontario government - and other governments - on job claims

Green energy job claims are a farce | Columnists | Opinion | Toronto Sun:

It’s always good for a laugh when politicians — from U.S. President Barack Obama, to Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne — brag about green energy as a job creator.
To illustrate, let’s review the number of jobs actually created by the Ontario Liberals’ green energy plan, as opposed to what they promised, while they’ve been sending our hydro bills into the stratosphere.
When ex-premier Dalton McGuinty introduced his Green Energy Act in 2009, he said it would create 50,000 jobs in Ontario by the end of 2012.
But when former auditor general Jim McCarter reported on McGuinty’s green energy plan in December, 2011, he found most of those jobs — 30,000 — were in construction, lasting only one to three years.

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