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   RM> It is actually a line right on the electricity bill. There are also   
   RM> Provincial plans that do the same thing.   
   RM> I save about $1000 a year on those grants   
      
   AT>There's a grant for low income people here (like me) but in the past few   
   year   
     >t seems like the electric bills went up more than the grant compensated for.   
     > the grant was great before this started happening.   
      
   Yes, it's still going to get worse every year. You mostly notice the   
   grants when they are first introduced but they lose a little every   
   year after that.   
      
   AT>I wish I had a single story house, then I'd heat it with a pellet stove.   
      
   My place here is small and up on concrete block posts. I used a wood   
   stove for a big part of my heating in the past when I wintered here   
   but the insurnce company put a stop to that unless I spend about   
   $4000 on a new certified stove, and then the rates will still go up   
   quite a bit.. Plus, I have some trees here but it's not a wood lot   
   so I'd have to buy wood and what I used to pay $30 for now costs   
   closer to $200 so it ends up cheaper to heat even with electricity.   
      
   RM> If you really want to get mad.. Ford put that 25% on only for a couple   
   RM> of days and then your gov't had a meltdown and insisted on a meeting   
   RM> to disuss things last week, so it was taken off again for now.   
      
   AT>The media keeps things like this quiet. I would have never known about it if   
     >idn't discuss it with you.   
      
   I think there's a lot of that going on down there. I think people would   
   be much more against what is going on if they know how much their bills   
   will go up and how many will lose their jobs if Trump does half of what   
   he wants to do.  He has stopped saying he will put tariffs on Canada   
   and Mexico and is now saying he will put it on everything that enters   
   the USA from any other country in the world. So everything you buy not   
   made in the USA will go up 25% or so, and all that tariff money will   
   just go into the gov't coffers. It's like a huge tax on all consumers   
   in your country and he's trying to convince you it is a good thing.   
      
   It is already costing your small businesses Billions of dollars.   
   Canadians have already cut vacations and shopping trips down there   
   by 500,000 fewer than normal for this time of year. How much money   
   would half a million tourists spend there in a month and what is   
   that doing to hotels and restaurants and retailers?   
      
   I feel bad when I see American tourists up here who, almost the   
   first thing they say is they are sorry for what Trump is doing   
   to us. It's not the American people's fault and we know that but   
   to fight back we can really only do the small stuff that hurts   
   the ordinary people down there. Thousands of American products   
   have been removed from the store shelves here and a lot of people   
   refuse to buy the ones that are still left.   
      
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