Ontario Energy Minister Chris Bentley found in breach of parliamentary privilege

Here we go again!

Once again the nefarious shenanigans of the McGuinty government has come oozing to the surface. The issue is, as most everyone knows, the 2010 cancellation of a power plant in Oakville and later Mississauga (in the middle of four Liberal ridings) just before an election. Moreover, one of the cancellations cost Ontario taxpayers $190-million dollars.

The opposition made a request before a standing committee of the legislature that the papers relating to these cancellations be released last May. Since then the Energy Minister (Bentley) has been stalling, arguing that:

[R]eleasing full documentation on the Oakville plant cancellation in the fall of 2010 and the Mississauga cancellation with two weeks to go until last October’s whisker-close provincial election would violate solicitor-client privilege and make public commercially sensitive information.

A breach of Parliamentary Privilege is a fairly serious matter, but the Liberal Speaker (David Levac, MPP for Brantford) has held off until September 24th to take action, A move that opposition parties argue is giving the McGuinty Liberals time to weasel out of it.

McGuinty's clown show goes on and on, so when will the people (outside of Vaughan) say enough is enough?