All Liberals present in the Legislature today voted in favour of an NDP resolution that said, "the Government of Ontario should return to a system of power that is publicly owned and regulated."

"If we could harness the energy that Ontario Liberals use flipping on Hydro issues, we could probably power a small town," said Garfield Dunlop, the Conservative member for Simcoe North.

Dunlop added, "At least we know where Howard Hampton stands. Though the Eves government disagrees with the NDP?s position, they have stood consistently on one side of this issue."

Dunlop said, "What happened today in the Legislature was totally amazing! It shows the complete lack of Liberal credibility. Unbelievably, there was yet another flip in their position on the opening of the electricity market."

On December 12, 2001 Dalton McGuinty told reporters, ?I think that it?s important that we move ahead with competition both in terms of generation and in terms of the transmission (of electricity).?

As of today, the Liberal Party website states, "We support a genuinely competitive marketplace for the generation of electricity... by this, we mean a marketplace in which there will be several generators of electricity---public and private?"

"This is a joke," said Dunlop, "How can anybody take them seriously, when their leader is saying one thing and his members vote in a different way? What is the Liberal Party's real position on electricity?"