In short order Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries board chair Polly Craik and Manitoba Hydro chair Sandy Riley skewered a couple of social and financial engineering projects of the previous NDP government. Manitoba Hydro is the big oneThe now completed review of a hydro transmission line Bipole III was a far deeper exercise, with much greater implications. That part of Hydro chair Sandy Riley's presentation was, or shouldn't have been, any surprise. Hydro Chair Sandy Riley sees rate-hikes as part of solution to fixing the company's books. Board chair Sandy Riley wouldn't pin down where those increases will be, but a good wager is more than the projected 3.95 per cent planned for the next two years.

Source: CBC News September 24, 2016 20:15 UTC