Aunt Kathy should have read Tip O'Neil's short treatise on government. "All politics is local".  At day's end people care more about garbage pick up than some esoteric issue that fascinates political leaders.  Ergo crippling costs translate into low polling numbers.  A previous Australia's government pushed hard at environmental issues and imposed a widely unpopular carbon type tax. The result............a change in government.  I guess the question is can Ontario recover the lost economic ground imposed on us by 15 (odd) years of Liberal mismanagement of the energy file once these fools are driven from office.