Manitoba Hydro says its boss wasn't talking about privatizing the sale of electricity when she said the Crown corporation's days as a monopoly are numbered. VIDEO | Hydro boss says customers will have choiceManitoba Hydro president and CEO Jay Grewal speaks to the importance of ensuring customers choose the public utility. He also wants to question the decision of Manitoba Hydro Telecom to suspend all business related to new broadband services while a request for proposals looks for a a new third-party manager for its operations. "It looks to us, and we're concerned, that they're just going to carve chunks off [Hydro] and sell those off." The only plausible explanation for what that could mean is that the government has an intention to break up Manitoba Hydro."

Source: CBC News September 11, 2020 21:40 UTC