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Originally Posted by Cowboy89
And if the people of Onatrio all want to pay more for energy and thus create a competative disadvantage for themselves in the world marketplace they shouldn't cry to the rest of us about how all their manufacturing jobs got shipped overseas and to other provinces.
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The input costs of electricity to the total costs of manufacturing is about 2.5% averaged out to all industry.
So the issue you cite largely doesn't exist. In some targeted sectors sure like aluminum smelting but there's none of that in Ontario. But you can implement other policies to address that if it turns out to be a problem.