Grid shortages ended and coal replacements enabled when Pickering 1 and 4 were refurbed in 2003 and 2005 at a $.03/ kwh.

Ontario's energy costs more than doubled because of:

1) Massive payment to wind/solar producers for power than is seldom around when needed and has to be dumped at a fraction of cost.

2) Lucrative contracts with Liberal cronies at Big Oil buying gas peaker power at 15 cents a kwh to provide power for the 90% of the time wind/solar is not producing significant energy, and inefficiently backing it up when it is. More gas, air pollution and GHG's  if we just skipped the wind and solar and ran on efficient slow spooling CCGT gas plant.

3) Massive expenditure upgrading the grid to up to 10 times its average capacity to handle wind storms and sunny June days. Very little expenditure would be needed to carry output from the originally proposed new nukes at Darlington.

The author is just trying to copy Trump's success, in the new post truth political arena.