I'd add here that no one on the MacDonald Committee had any experience in the electric utility business.  Don MacDonald didn't even know what baseload and peaking load capacity were when asked about them.  The only member of the committee who had even passing knowledge of the electric utility industry was an economics professor at U of T.  To make matters even worse, the editors of the Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail have never seen the value in hiring a reporter knowledgeable in the power generation and demand management industries.  The Toronto Star and Globe and Mail even turned down a freelance story that clearly explained and broke down for readers every line of the utility bills consumers were seeing after the electricity grid was opened to competition in Ontario.