Price comparison from March 29,2019 and April 1, 2019
Our MPP is still looking for fairness in pricing when it comes to gasoline prices.
It’s been about two months since Kenora-Rainy River’s Greg Rickford asked the federal Competition Bureau to investigate why prices in northwestern Ontario were higher than elsewhere.
Rickford says he’s willing to let the Bureau do what it has to.
“We’ll continue to let the competition bureau do (their work. File a report with us so we can see structurally how we can preserve and protect lower and fair prices for northwestern Ontario,” says Rickford. ” (The) competition bureau continues to do their important work and I’m going to give them the appropriate amount of time. This is an extensive investigation that they’re doing.
When Rickford sought the review, northwestern Ontario was paying some of the highest gasoline prices in the province even after the province ended a carbon tax program that the Ford government touted as reducing prices.
Prices did lower shortly after January’s announcement but crept back up in recent weeks prior to Monday’s rise.
“And right now we’re paying excessively high prices,” says Rickford. “A month ago we were paying some of the lowest rates. So my job as the Minister of Energy, in the coming months and years, we’re gonna be modernizing the Ontario Energy Board and we’re going to start to come to a point where we have a greater expectation of price transparency and fairness.
Rickford says he does plan to touch base with the Bureau this week.
