Isn't this so like the G&M and even the Toronto Star to pretend no one saw this coming?  If neither of this media sources saw it coming, it's because none of their editors saw the importance of having an Energy Report on staff (they still don't).  Therefore, when Mike Harris issued The MacDonald Report during the summer of 1996, all both newspapers did was rehash and publish--without question--the news releases prepared by the Premier's office.  None of their reporters bothered to read the Appendix of The MacDonald Report.  The Appendix explained in very concise terms how the Province's bean counters figured that selling off Ontario Hydro and opening the grid to out-of-Province supply (always more costly) would lower the price of electricity in Ontario.  The reasoning was rubbish, of course.  The core of the reasoning offered was that an outsider would purchase one of Ontario Hydro's generating units and sell electricity to Ontarians at less than the prevailing price of electricity.