"And if you’re familiar with past intersections of Ontario’s elections and its energy system, the echoes are eerie. There is a long, sorry record of governments trying to buy goodwill (or ease anger) by trying to manipulate hydro prices – both Bob Rae’s NDP and Ernie Eves’s Progressive Conservatives doing the system huge damage with rate freezes as they unsuccessfully tried to hold office."

Well I'm glad that this column at least acknowledges the similar actions of previous governments of other political stripes.  Not to defend the Liberals, who have truly messed this up, but just to point out that there are sad precedents.