— Jeff VanRoboys laments the Ontario government’s one-two punch that he says is hurting his cucumber harvesting business. The sorting lines and large harvesters at the plant sit idle on a warm spring day, with VanRoboys apologizing that things are so quiet. It’s also when high energy and labour costs hit the business the hardest. When VanRoboys took over from his father in 2008, he says his hydro bill during the peak month of operation, August, was roughly $18,000. Now they’ve been replaced with call centres and other organizations that don’t pay what the factories used to pay,” she says.

Source: National Post May 17, 2018 18:45 UTC