A mistake repeated more than three times is a decision. Formally documented: unsafe, and/or high risk, and/or serious risk of fire and/or electrocution financially beneficial mistakes repeated thousands of times despite numerous warnings is a deliberate crime with massive violent consequences.
Corruption kills, as do electrical fires and greedy public servants. Exposing government predators who harm unaware Ontarians for money is a noble and honorable act. This may be a hitherto unknown deadliest case of abuse of power in recent Canadian history.
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This randomly affects 16 million uninformed Ontarians. Hundreds or even thousands have already become unaware victims of electrical accidents and fires inflicted by corrupt officials.
It is addressed to: investigative journalists; political and forensic scientists; human rights and consumer protection, whistleblowing and anti-corruption NGOs; risk and danger prevention authorities; victims’ insurers and lawyers; professional associations and regulatory bodies; fire chiefs and electrical workers; law enforcement agencies; public servants, MPPs, MPs; Ontario and Canadian governments.
In 2014, I, Viktor Khroustalev, then a licensed electrical contractor (LEC), began alerting authorities. On December 7, 2020, the Ontario Auditor General proved that a pair of Ontario's electrical safety regulators, the Electrical Safety Authority (ESA) and the Ministry, made tens or hundreds of thousands of mistakes. Statistically, this didn't reduce danger to the lowest attainable level, didn't improve public safety to the highest achievable degree, set fire to more structures and prevented fewer avoidable fatalities. Thousands of overcharged, abused and outraged LECs were forced to work illegally. I have copied verbatim from the Audit and compiled some of the pairs’ failures in this partial list.
The law mandates the ESA, the electrical safety administrative authority and the MPBSD (formerly the MGCS), the consumer protection Ministry, to exercise their powers and duties under the SCSAA and the Act in such a manner as to protect, enhance, and improve public safety and carry out and perform the Administrative Agreement in a manner consistent with the objective of ensuring a fair, safe and informed marketplace that supports a competitive economy (see a page marked as 1).
Contrary to the preceding paragraph, in real life, the pair have been increasing risk over the years. These are some of their major, fundamental and critical safety failures. Every italicized point is a fact formally documented by the Ontario Auditor General. It is copied verbatim from the Audit. If you cannot find a point, please search the Audit for its fragments:
- .the ESA has not mitigated the risk;
- defeats the ESA’s objective of improving public safety;
- not meeting the spirit and intent of Ontario government directives;
- does not operate efficiently in carrying out its mandate to improve public electrical safety;
- does not confirm that unsafe installations identified by general inspections are ever fixed, even when the installations pose a serious risk of fire and/or electrocution;
- unsafe installations found during general inspections–even those that are high risk–are [not …] fixed;
- not fulfilling all of its responsibilities under Part VIII of the Electricity Act, 1998 and the Safety and Consumer Statutes Administration Act, 1996 (Acts) to improve public electrical safety;
- [the Ministry/MPBSD/MGCS …] has not ensured that the ESA is accomplishing its mandate;
- [the Ministry has not confirmed …] that the fees that the ESA charges encourage electrical safety compliance (which they are supposed to do under the ESA’s Administrative Agreement);
- [the Ministry has not held …] the ESA accountable […] under its 2013 administrative agreement;
- [the Ministry has not used] meaningful operational performance metrics to ensure that the ESA is operating effectively and in a cost-efficient way to carry out its responsibilities under the Acts;
- [the Ministry …] has not addressed the situation;
- [the Ministry…] has not fulfilled its oversight responsibilities to ensure that the ESA is operating efficiently […] without compromising public safety;
- the ESA issued certificates of inspections for about 133,000 uninspected installations (or for 11% of the about 1.2 million installations it was notified of) that required at least one site visit according to the ESA. The ESA collected about $17 million in total fees for these unvisited installations.
[The safety regulator collected about $17 million from customers for the 133,000 mandatory safety inspections but failed to conduct them and/or illegally skipped them. The ESA breached the 133,000 service contracts. Some unaware consumers have received fake or forged pass safety certificates. Most of them: 1) paid for the service in advance; 2) did not get it; 3) ended up with defects, unsafe, high risk, or serious risk conditions; 4) did not know about the added danger; 5) some lost property or died in the resulting fires. The $17M was unlawfully recorded as revenue. A portion of it eventually ended up in the ESA executives’ pay packages. Another portion was paid directly to the Ministry as the oversight fee. Naturally, the Ministry, responsible and accountable to the people and the Legislature for the ESA's fulfillment of its statutory (or legal) mandate, saw nothing wrong or illegal. The Ministry accepted and/or covered it all up. Horrible or even deadly for the victims - great for the bad guys’ paychecks]
Astonishingly, the extremely knowledgeable and experienced executives of the pair made about two hundred thousand mistakes. Contrary to their mandates and duties, they have deteriorated public electrical safety. And instead of protecting, have endangered masses of Ontario consumers. Coincidentally and even more astonishingly, most of their mistakes have been boosting the ESA’s revenue, personal financial gain of the pair’s leaders, and eventually of the whole government.
Answering a single question - Would I want any of the thousands of the aforementioned errors, formally proven and documented by the Auditor General of Ontario, to happen to my family or property? - reveals wrongdoing in 15 seconds without any knowledge of electricity. Getting officials to answer this question about their own families would also confirm a scam that endangers consumers for money.
The pair's formally proven failures and safety violations torment Ontarians. A journalistic or formal independent investigation; or extracting individual answers from the pair and other authorities; or getting opinions from impartial experts will: establish the truth; prevent many future electrical accidents and save lives; victims of past electrical fires will get justice and restitution. On paper, the pair and the government are accountable to the people. Forcing them to adhere to the law and the principles of: transparency, responsibility, accountability, access to information, the public's right to know, consumer protection, the right to life and security, etc., will defeat this alleged sinister crime and the total cover-up!
Under the irresistible slogan of improving electrical safety, Ontario's cunning businesspeople and greedy public servants have created for themselves three semi-parasitic electrical licensing, regulating and consumer protection bodies (skilledtradesontario.ca esasafe.com the Ministry) instead of just a single lean, effective and efficient one. They overcharge customers with four dues to remunerate themselves. Their bloated, highly-paid staffs add a huge amount of red tape and waste. The obvious abuse triggers defiance. That's why ≈ 45% of electrical work, mostly in the residential repair and renovation sector, is done “under the table” without passing mandatory safety inspections. The ESA catches some offenders, charges numerous: fines, penalties, issues cost recovery notices, director’s orders, notices of violations. It is yet another source of abhorrent, illicit revenue from its victims. A portion of net income eventually ends up in the executives’ comprehensive pay packages. Another portion is paid directly to the Ministry as an annual oversight fee. The pair’s top executives reciprocally reward and cover up for each other. The unaware consumers who paid for their negligence, mistakes and failures end up with unsafe, high risk and even serious risk defects. Victims don’t know about the scam and danger. They are unable to defend themselves. Those who died in electrical fires are big time losers, they paid for being burned alive - horrible for the victims - great for the bad guys’ paychecks! It’s a classic example of absolute abuse of absolute power, red tape, self-remuneration, bloating, conflict of interest, collusion, corruption, and regulatory capture. The almighty highly organized regulators together pass laws and make many unnecessary inspections mandatory in order to extract millions of dollars in redundant, excessive, counterproductive, predatory fees from Ontarians. And then the regulators themselves do not deliver these mandatory inspections, after collecting payments. On top of that, LECs who endure these abuses try to avoid them. Many LECs work illegally without obtaining permits, without paying for them, and without passing mandatory inspections [as explained in (A), (B), (C), (D) below]. This document demonstrates how and why thousands of inspections receive fake or forged pass safety certificates, or are fraudulently skipped, missed, omitted, unvisited, unfulfilled, not followed up, adding millions of electrical defects over the years.
The actual victims know nothing about: when the first, second, tenth, hundredth, 133,000th mistake was made; who and why repeated many of them hundreds or thousands of times, despite my relentless demands to stop. The government breaches the public's right to know and access to information provisions, meticulously hides, covers it up, suppresses critics and whistleblowers to avoid a huge scandal. Even in 2024, no one has been held responsible or accountable to the public for any of this. The perpetrators still financially reward themselves for repeating some old dangerous mistakes. They even invent and add new ones, eventually setting more structures ablaze.
Point (A) below is a documented fact taken from my 2014 - 2024 numerous complaints. (B + C + D) is a fact copied from the Audit. The (A) and (B + C + D) describe the same thing. It boosts the ESA's revenues, leadership’s compensation and pushes 45% or so of Ontario's LECs to work underground!
Even a single minor electrical mistake can kill or set a fire. But for many years; for as long as 10 years; and even for most of its [ESA's] existence; or since the enactment of the seemingly good O. Reg. 570/05 in 2007, the ESA has been:
- adding a huge number of unsafe; high risk; serious risk of fire and/or electrocution mistakes and other deadly screw-ups listed in the Audit
- implanting hundreds of thousands or millions of defects into structures
- charging parasitic, counterproductive fees, fines, penalties and increasing them to generate revenue
- every or most of these individual ESA “mistakes” have been either: saving time, money, manpower, other resources and/or yielding income. While causing anguish across the province, the relentless repetition over the years of these errors has been adding hundreds of millions of dollars of illicit revenue to its books and to the compensation of ESA's bloated, highly paid top brass
- ESA pays the Ministry a portion of the net income. They do everything together, kicking me from one to another, sabotaging my complaints and demands to stop harming Ontarians for money.
Ontarians have bought thousands or millions of unsafe or defective products. The Auditor says, “Electrical wiring or products that are installed or manufactured incorrectly pose significant public safety risks such as electrocution and fire”. The formally documented 133,000 of not followed up and unfulfilled prepaid inspections, among other things, have added defects. They pose an even greater risk because they were unknown to the customers, who received the fake or forged pass safety certificates for the unvisited installations and uninspected wiring. Shall these 133K customers be categorized as knowingly or intentionally endangered victims of the poor quality safety services.? The judge in this case says about the potentially calamitous outcomes of seemingly "minor" errors. The ESA itself states, “electrical mistakes can be costly and deadly”. But while neither the Auditor nor any other authority asks questions about: who, when, why, how, etc. made the first, second, tenth... hundredth mistake and repeated many of them hundreds, thousands or even tens of thousands of times, the pair and the government block my multiple ongoing demands to testify under oath. They prevent investigation into consequences to the actual electrical accident and fire victims and their numbers, also despite my multiple ongoing demands!
The ESA’s mandate and vision call for enhancing public electrical safety. Please search the Audit with these keywords: unsafe high risk high-risk serious risk. You’ll see that the two regulators do these things, relentlessly repeat them, and deteriorate electrical safety for money. For a moment you will remain in utter disbelief, which will quickly turn into outrage and a keen desire to stop them. Contrary to the statutes and despite hundreds of my incessant demands over the years to stop breaching their policies, the pair have been intentionally causing statistically unavoidable random torment in Ontario.
The O. Reg. 570/05 had the opposite effect to what was claimed as intended. Instead of improving, it has deteriorated safety, but increased ESA's revenues and paychecks of its leadership. Creating the three semi-parasitic licensing/regulating bodies, with many unnecessary high paying positions, legalizing and maximizing self-remuneration by and for their top executives, have always been the actual intent behind that regulation, eventually benefiting the whole government. This happens and is covered up even now.
As a LEC:
(A) Since early 2014, I have reported that LECs in the residential repair and renovation sector refuse to: pay the unnecessary, redundant, excessive fees; be overcharged and abused. They skip mandatory inspections. Hidden defects accumulate. Then random fires occur as a lagging side effect. The significant delay and other circumstances make it impossible to pinpoint the primary culprit and root causes of the accidents. The pair have been doing this since 2007, unlawfully blocking my ongoing complaints since 2014. The ESA and the Ministry separately, jointly and intentionally (or at least knowingly and brazenly) have driven 45% of electrical work underground with hellish zeal and impunity.
It's a fact. The Auditor General has established that:
(B) The ESA has also been unsuccessful in preventing illegal electrical installations, a problem that is widespread in Ontario and is partially due to the current legislation that prevents certified and master electricians from offering electrical services to the public.
(C) the Ministry has not confirmed that the fees that the ESA charges encourage electrical safety compliance (which they are supposed to do under the ESA’s Administrative Agreement).
(D) We [the Auditor staff], requested a quote for new wiring installation. The quotes that we received ranged from a low of $150 to $1,100 and together averaged about $650. We found that none of the 20 “for-hire electricians” were licensed by the ESA. Each of them strongly discouraged us from notifying the ESA, reasoning that the job was too small. Licensed electrical contractors offer to do electrical installations for less money if the ESA is not notified as required by law. We obtained 20 additional price quotes from licensed contractors from across Ontario. Nine of them gave us an ESA and a non-ESA quote, saying that it was up to us to decide if the ESA would be notified or not, even though the law says that contractors must notify ESA of all electrical installations. The average ESA quote was about $200 more than the average non-ESA quote. Three of these nine contractors had been previously caught by the ESA for performing electrical installations without notifying it.
The (A) or (B + C + D) continues for: 17 years since the enactment of O. Reg. 570/05; 11 years since I began reporting it to the ESA and then to other authorities; 3 years after the Audit exposed it; 2.5 years since the initial Implementation Plan was published. The pair have always known about the atrocious consequences of (B + C + D). But have: not stopped operating inefficiently in 2008; not cut the fees after my first demand in 2014; not ensured that the ESA is accomplishing its mandate after my 200th warning in 2022. The regulators have not amended legislation related to the (B + C + D) situation and the Auditor’s RECOMMENDATION 12 even today. The pair has even taken steps in the opposite direction. After how many: years of stubborn repetition of financially rewarding "mistakes"; safety deterioration; and hundreds of blocked demands to stop collecting millions of dollars for doing so - does the violation of their own mandates and policies become a deliberate infliction of horror for money?
Ahain, in this video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdmquHuGTrQ, the Auditor General of Ontario, Bonnie Lysyk, says, “Electrical wiring or products that are installed or manufactured incorrectly pose significant public safety risks such as electrocution and fire.” The ESA itself states, “electrical mistakes can be costly and deadly”. But astonishingly, the Auditor and Ontario government have not realized that their own: inaction and indifference with regards to the ESA’s and Ministry’s: unsafe, uninspected, uncertified electrical products that have been sold in Ontario for decades and in huge quantities; plus about 133,000 uninspected installations; plus a huge number of other electrical safety failures, some repeated to this day; plus millions of the implanted into the structures defects, and their grisly consequences, which have not yet been: investigated, stopped, corrected, found, repaired, punished, have also been posing a significant risk to public safety, such as electrocution or fire.
Astonishingly, despite the hundreds of repeated demands I have sent to various Ontario officials since 2014 not to put Ontarians at risk, they have never acknowledged that all of the errors, failures and electrical safety violations formally proven in the Audit have continued to occur for years both before and after 2014. The pair and authorities knew, or should have known, that all of these mistakes statistically resulted in increased danger, more actual random fires, injuries and fatalities.
Especially striking is the fact that no emergency action has been taken to stop all of this one, five, or ten years before the 2020 Audit, nor one or two years after, nor in 2024. And the anguish caused by these failures and tens or hundreds of thousands of individual mistakes over 17 years continues to be largely ignored and covered up by all Ontario authorities to this day.
This was clandestinely done by the culprits; mistake makers; safety regulators/violators. With complicity and cover-up from the increasingly higher levels of government responsible for: the culprits’ oversight; accountability; fulfilling their mandates and duties; enforcing compliance with and adherence to the law.
Each level of the government pyramid benefits financially from all these fees and hundreds of millions of dollars extracted for: unsafe, high risk, serious risk of fire and/or electrocution, etc. mistakes that have been going on: for many years; or for as long as 10 years; or even for most of its [ESA's] existence!
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts has presented its report to the House in April 2022. https://www.ola.org/sites/default/files/node-files/committee/report/pdf/2022/2022-04/Final%20English_ESA.pdf Please search for: does not operate efficiently in carrying and read it down.
.This document https://www.auditor.on.ca/en/content/annualreports/arreports/en22/1-11ESA_en22.pdf states, “The Electrical Safety Authority (ESA) and the Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery (formerly the Ministry of Government and Consumer Services), as of September 30, 2022, have fully implemented 72% of actions we recommended in our 2020 Annual Report.”
Standing Committee on Public Accounts Follow-Up on Value-for-Money Audit, 2020 Annual Report
https://www.auditor.on.ca/en/content/annualreports/arreports/en22/3-10ESAPAC_en22.pdf
effective November 18, 2022, states: “As of September 2022, 63% of the Committee’s recommended actions had been fully implemented”.
The ESA Implementation Plan says that 5 response efforts out of 50 are still not completed today.
These 5 safety problems haven’t been eliminated after the Audit! The pair have been doing most of these horrible things to Ontarians for 17 years, since the enactment of O. Reg. 570/05 in 2007! And for 11 years after my first demand to stop. My 200+ emails to the pair and various authorities to stop making mistakes have been ignored/rejected/sabotaged (please ask and I will forward any number of them to you). The ESA and the Ministry are severally and jointly responsible for this today!
But who has been paying for the 5%, or 28%, or 37% of the continuous mistakes? Is it not the pair failures' victims?
Here is one more earlier hearing https://www.ola.org/en/legislative-business/committees/public-accounts/parliament-42/transcripts/committee-transcript-2021-oct-06
These are fundamental problems with all these and other related hearings and procedures. They 1) Do not ask enough individual specific questions. 2) Ask too general, aggregated and not a sufficient number of questions. 3) Trust the ESA’s and believe the Ministry’s answers without scrutinizing them and despite the factual evidence to the contrary. 4) Do not use international impartial experts and independent forensic scientists to analyse the root causes and consequences of the documented failures. 5) Do not invite them to testify. 6) Do not invite myself as a witness and victim, despite the fact that I kept demanding from the: ESA, Ministry, several MPPs, Premier, Auditor, Ombudsman, etc. to testify with documented evidence. 7) Do not invite first-hand witnesses, forced or involuntary offenders, victims, LECs willing to give voluntary confessions to these hearings. All of these hearings and their participants have in fact blocked the search for the truth, ignored the facts, obstructed the investigation, and covered up for the perpetrators at the expense of the safety, protection of the victims and their lives.
Again. All the actual victims of electrical fires and accidents must be personally notified of the Audit findings and of my ongoing complaints and demands to stop making these mistakes since 2014. The mass media must inform all Ontarians with explanations and details. A public inquiry must be televised, strictly in the public interest, scrutinizing the root causes, subtleties, risk and consequences of each individual error and the legality of the actions of those who made and repeated it.
Why weren’t simple questions asked: who, when, how, etc. made the first mistake? Who, when, why, etc. has then repeated it tens, or hundreds, or thousands, or dozens thousands of times? Why weren’t the questions asked about the second documented in the Audit mistake? And no answers received about the 3rd, 20th, 100th, 133,000th individual error or failure? This approach is described in more detail below.
The Implementation progress must be meticulously scrutinized. As it is probably 50% or more fake.
My complaints were mostly about the residential repair and renovation sector. I asked authorities to evaluate formal electrical fire stats. They did not. I demand again. These are some of them:
Right now, a mom is playing with her child, not knowing that they will be burned alive within a year. In 2021, 1,354 or so families didn't know that some of them would become victims of an electrical fire because the pair stubbournly repeated tens or hundreds of thousands of financially beneficial safety mistakes. Statistically, these errors have inflicted or may have inflicted random fires and fatalities.
Between 2012 and 2021, 82% of structure fires occurred in the residential setting. Electrical distribution equipment (26%) remained one of the most common ignition sources in these fires.
Please search the OESR-2022 for “82%” without quotes.
Between 2016 and 2020, 81% of structure fires occurred in the residential setting. Electrical distribution equipment (24%) was one of the most common ignition sources in these fires. Please search the 2021 Ontario Electrical Safety Report for “81%” without quotes.
1,472 was the total number of structure fires with electricity as the fuel of the ignition source in Ontario, 2011–2020 (OBC structures only). And the number of these fires with loss in 2020 was 1,354. Or 3.7 a day! Look at page 65 of the same 2021 report.
Please search the OESR_2017 for “107%” without quotes. You will see that the five-year rolling average rate of non-occupational electrical-related fatalities per million population has increased by 107% when comparing 2008-2012 and 2013-2017.
Please search the ESA_OESR_2018 for “181%” without quotes. You will see that the five-year rolling average rate of non-occupational electrical-related fatalities per million population has increased by 181% between 2009–2013 and 2014–2018 time periods.
The rate of electrical fire fatalities (where the ignition fuel was identified as electricity and/or the ignition source was electrical distribution equipment) has increased by 102% when comparing the five-year rolling average in 2009–2013 and 2014–2018 (OESR_2019).
The five-year rolling average rate between 2010–2014 and 2015–2019 has increased by 15% per million population.
The rate of non-occupational electrical-related fatalities per million population has increased by 25% between the same time periods.
The five-year rolling average rate of non-occupational electrical-related fatalities per million population has increased by 83%, when comparing 2012-2016 to 2017-2021. (OESR-2021).
The OFMEM data identified 80 deaths (closed cases) in fires for which electricity was the fuel of the ignition source or which were from electrical distribution equipment between 2011 and 2020. Since 2011, the death rate from this type of fire has increased 45% from 0.47 deaths per million population to 0.68 deaths per million population. (OESR-2021).
The rate of non-occupational electrical-related fatalities per million population has increased by 27% between the same time periods (OESR-2022).
The five-year rolling average rate of non-occupational electrical-related fatalities has increased by 38% when comparing 2013–2017 and 2018–2022. Per million population.
Rate increase of 83%. 2013–2017 non-occupational electrical fatalities five-year rolling average per million population compared to five-year period 2018–2022.
OESR-2022-FULL-FINAL page 5.
2023 Ontario Electrical Safety Report found that human error is responsible for 21% of non-occupational electrical fatalities by potential cause in Ontario, in 2014–2023 (page 30). The number of fatalities resulting from the 200,000 or so human errors of the pair must be investigated and calculated.
Here is another ESA’s “achievement” I’ve been warning about:
More electrical fatalities at home than at work in Ontario
Electrical Safety Authority monitoring this reversal in a historic trend
The regulators have created this historic reversal - it is their major atrocious achievement. Despite all my warnings, they have driven underground most electrical work in this sector. The ESA has been doing it unlawfully since 2007 and continues into 2024 with the assistance, participation, approval, oversight from its executives and the Ministry. The OESR stats scientifically confirm these facts and my allegations. (Statistical analysis is a science. Statistical data is formal evidence.)
A critical note. Please realize that the electrical safety errors and statutory failures are formally documented facts. And a few, some or many of those formally documented victims are possible, probable, potential or statistically expected actual random victims of these errors. Before being subjected to the pair's mistakes and/or before experiencing the consequences of the pair's “work”, these victims were ordinary people, just like you and me. We cannot save them. But if you and I exercise mercy, compassion, humanity, and act, we will prevent some future fires and bring justice and restitution to the past victims.
The ESA, the Ontario Ministry of the Solicitor General and Office of the Fire Marshal and Emergency Management have these stats and information.
A forensic investigation is critically needed. For example, to find out why, despite the skyrocketing use of fire and smoke alarms that have prevented so many fires and casualties in recent years, Ontario's electrical fire fatality statistics are on the rise and some other electrical and fire safety indicators have deteriorated. Isn't this yet another accomplishment of the pair and/or the result of their many years of repeated formally documented revenue boosting failures?
This document exposes just a tip of the iceberg. Together, we can expose and prevent many future tragedies like these. Protection of life and security is guaranteed under Section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The government has violated the constitution!
A critical note. The government will claim that most or all of these problems have already been corrected. But that is not true. The safety problems were neither corrected before my first complaint, nor after the 200th one. Not all of them were fixed five, ten years before the Audit and not in 2024. A court ruling has proven that a single: skipped inspection; LEC’s error; or basic defect has resulted in a fatal accident. This ruling proves my statement that each electrical mistake, failure, and every uninspected device, installation, job present a potential miniscule, possible small, probable considerable, indirect big, or direct grave health or safety hazard. Let alone the formally documented 133,000 skipped, unfulfilled or fake inspections. So how many thousands or millions of electrical defects have the pair and their errors implanted into homes and buildings? And, as a consequence, how many accidents, fires, injuries and deaths have been caused by all the documented errors made by them?
In 2021, while researching the case, I found even more evidence to support the allegations. A LEC “saved” $200 to $500 by not taking a compulsory permit and not passing a mandatory inspection. His single small error has resulted in a fatality. The court confirmed: lethal danger of an uninspected installation and of a minuscule defect implanted years ago. For years I have been warning about deadly consequences of the identical financially beneficial to the culprits “mistakes”, like the now known fact of the 133,000 individual uninspected installations and the $17 million collected for not inspecting them. A huge number of the implanted by the pair defects is still unknown, hidden, covered up. Each year, more than a thousand actual victims remain unaware of who may have set a fire on their property. Tens of thousands of uninformed consumers will continue to be at risk for years to come.
That single uninspected LEC's installation had inflicted one death. How many fires were caused by the 133,000 uninspected installations? Is finding this out in the consumers’ and public interest? The ESA under the Minister's oversight still makes some of these errors today, in 2024. Does this prove a pattern, habit, or determination by the authorities to keep making more income boosting and self-remunerating "mistakes"? How much anguish was inflicted before and after my first complaint; before and after the release of the Audit; and after my 200th complaint? Shall we, the people of Ontario, demand that the government take immediate action against the horror it continues to inflict right now, order it to hold a public inquiry to save lives? Alone I can not prevent the entire government from deliberately harming the public!
Some victims of electrical fires and their tragedies are the consequences of the ESA's past failures, making of which was financially beneficial to the ESA leadership. These three documents (and others) prove that the ESA’s top executives still make mistakes and a percentage of the net income they generate is then shared with the Ministry. Eventually ending up in their leadership paychecks.
Again, this LEC has “saved” $200 to $500 by skipping a mandatory inspection. He was fined $537,500 for his single mistake. How many times was the ESA convicted and how much money did it pay for the tens or hundreds of thousands of their formally documented failures? How many fires, injuries and fatalities did it cause? Should this particular “mistake” be publicly scrutinized to begin with?
The regulators and the government are accountable to the people. And must prove that all of the formally documented past and still ongoing problems and possibly millions of accumulated defects (that I have persistently reported since 2014) have not caused massive anguish from 2007 to the present. They are obliged to answer questions. Extracting individual answers from them is the easiest way to almost instantly expose the truth, stop the torment, defeat and punish this alleged sinister crime.
.Contrary to the Auditor’s: We also recommend the ESA in consultation with industry stakeholders review and establish reasonable licensing and inspection fees to address the illegal electrical installation market; and recommendations of: revisiting the fee model as a whole to identify where fees can be reduced; enhancing its oversight processes to provide greater assurances that the ESA is meeting its public safety mandate in the interests of the people of Ontario. And instead of cutting the charges to implement these recommendations, the wiring fees and the licensing fees have increased! The fees that the ESA charges [still don't] encourage electrical safety compliance. After ten years of sabotaging our feedback, testimony, evidence and voluntary confessions of the five LECs and myself, we, the six stakeholders, are still unlawfully blocked from testifying and confessing despite the foregoing Auditor’s recommendations!
Knowing the dire consequences, the ESA and the Ministry nevertheless took yet another seemingly right step in the wrong direction. They have increased penalties for those who: refused to pay the predatory fees; rejected even more overcharge; defied the abuse. And now all kinds of forced violators, involuntary offenders, and victims must pay even more money to the pair of brazen abusers.
Although the ESA shall use the funds that it collects as administrative penalties for the following purposes only:
1. Education initiatives concerning compliance with Part VIII of the Act.
2. Consumer awareness.
3. Electrical safety initiatives for the public.
These funds allow ESA to save other revenues by not spending them on these three points. Its net income becomes higher. A portion of these "savings" ends up in the ESA leadership's paychecks.
No one is above the law. The ESA imposes administrative penalties against various violators. Why doesn't anyone do the same against the biggest, most dangerous, determined, brazen, long-standing and notorious offenders - the ESA and Ministry? So that these funds go to partially compensate the victims of their massive, still ongoing contraventions (possibly deliberate violent crimes).
Again. After increasing the redundant, excessive, counterproductive fees, contrary to the 2020 Auditor's recommendations, today, in 2024, the ESA is even more unsuccessful in preventing illegal electrical installations than ever. They do some of the exact opposite things to those recommended in the Audit. They didn't cut overcharging, waste, abuse, the number of semi-parasitic regulators, their staff, red tape, and other things that I demanded since 2014 (and the Auditor recommended at the end of 2020). In some cases the pair have made the situation even more dangerous. Instead of improvements, they increased risk, ignored some of their formally proven errors and presented some uncorrected failures as achievements. All of this brought higher revenues to the ESA, additional personal financial gains to the pair's bosses, and even more anguish to Ontario's victims in a variety of ways.
While the super highly experienced LECs must first get three licenses and pay four fees, the ESA allows absolutely clueless homeowners and occupants to do the same electrical work without a single license and without a single hour of experience! The public now perceives anybody is able to do it. Homeowners, DIYers and handymen replace LECs. The ESA gets even more money from: all these counterproductive dues; more electrical mistakes; greater variety and numbers of the abused victims and overcharged offenders it has created; various fines; higher penalty amounts. This is the pair’s very exciting but crazy and deadly bonanza!
Simply put, the five independent expert sources say that four obviously excessive, redundant, unnecessary, counterproductive fees drive the electrical work underground, deteriorate safety, add millions of defects and torment. The (A) and (B + C + D) say that cutting the number of: these regulators from three to one; and then reducing the fees and their amount is the easiest, fastest, logical, obvious way to quickly and drastically minimize the amount of illegal electrical installations, violations, offenses, offenders, victims, risk, danger, screw ups and accidents across Ontario. The pair’s leadership, naturally, does the opposite in order to make more money for themselves. And for the government.
These two figures - We obtained 20 additional price quotes from licensed contractors from across Ontario. Nine of them gave us an ESA and a non-ESA quote … - copied from the Audit, are formally documented evidence that about 45% of LECs either try to or actually work without obtaining compulsory permits. Every year thousands of LECs do tens or hundreds of thousands of jobs illegally. And millions or tens of millions of defects pile up, causing fires, killing Ontarians. This also means that the ESA has either failed to deal with the problem or has done so intentionally to boost ESA's revenues and leadership's personal earnings. The pair still disregards the Auditor's concerns and recommendations.
It is a shockingly huge, horrible and deadly failure, a deliberate act that has randomly affected the entire province & many thousands or even millions of innocent victims of various types. It is done clandestinely. That's why the public and victims know nothing and are unable to fight. Many of them have yet to become actual victims in the future because of all the defects that have accumulated since 2007.
The Audit has demonstrated how this affected the entire industry. Honest LECs cannot compete with the 45% of those who skip the mandatory inspections. Eventually, most sector LECs are forced to work "under the table", they fall prey to various fines and penalties that increase revenues and self-enrich the regulators’ leadership. The O. Reg. 570/05, other legislation, Acts, policies as well as many mistakes deteriorate safety, cause casualties, coincidentally generating even more millions of dollars for these folks. They then pay a portion of that money, up to $685,000 annual oversight fee to the Minister!
Not only the ESA and Ministry always knew what they were doing. They have deliberately conceived, planned, and implemented all of the things described herein and in the Audit. It's a vicious circle of making various "mistakes" that have these things in common - they always generate higher personal financial reward to their top brass, deteriorate safety, bring anguish, and tragedies to their customers.
These 45% or so of LECs offenders and ESA have already committed all these offenses. They've already put consumers at risk, it's a fact. They have done this together in 2007 through 2024, it's also a fact. The actual number of victims must yet be statistically, or empirically, or case by case calculated.
Understanding the root causes of each mistake; analyzing every risk will reveal the truth and save lives. Without urgently trying to stop this, more people will lose properties to fire, be injured, or burned alive.
No matter what the alleged perpetrators say, there are documented horrible facts written "in black ink on white paper" in the Audit. I have incessantly reported to the ESA/MPBSD since early 2014 that these actions were contrary to ESA's safety mission, vision, and public protection mandate. They’ve been doing this anyway. The ESA must enforce compliance, but it has prosecuted only a few out of the hundreds of thousands of LECs’ contraventions in the last few years. The ESA blocks feedback from honest LECs and from offenders. It covers up this longest, largest, deadliest ongoing point of safety deterioration. The ESA breaches its own Advisory Councils policy and obstructs Stakeholder Engagement principles. Critics and opponents have not been permitted to testify to the Councils or join them as members. I'd like to submit to authorities documented evidence absolutely proving a deliberate nature of this. But the pair blocks the truth, says one thing and does the opposite, refuses to cut: the fees recommended by the Auditor; the number of parasitic regulators; their bloated highly-paid staff. If they are innocent, why do they refuse to answer individual questions and address each safety concern, why do they block testimony of the first-hand witnesses, voluntary confessions of the offenders, why do they block or obstruct the investigation? Why does the government cover this up?
Why not juxtapose leadership's behavior with the facts and law? The (A) or (B + C + D) and the 133,000 fake inspections are by far the deadliest facts. Should a legal process, consisting of a thorough investigation, indictments, laying charges, and trials similar to those described here, be initiated for every single safety mistake made by the ESA? What if some of these mistakes ended up causing an accident, injury or fire? Should all the public servants: the PM, Premier, government; Legislature; MPPs; MPs; Attorney General; Fire Marshal; OPP; RCMP, PEO; CPAO; C.DIR.; ICD.D; Fire Chiefs; engineers; LECs; first-hand witnesses, voluntarily confessing involuntary offenders, forced accomplices, whistleblowers, ESA critics, opponents; victims of electrical structure fires, their lawyers; insurers covering the loss; media, etc. take part in a public inquiry. I will present overwhelming evidence that many, most if not all public servants have so far ignored, prevented, concealed the truth or sabotaged the investigation. Isn’t it obvious that it should be conducted by non-Canadian, absolutely impartial, totally independent experts who have no conflict of interest - for example, members of the IAEI, or of the IAFC, or the UK or US private engineering, electrical accident and accounting forensic firms? Law enforcement agencies (not to mention victims and consumers) have no way of knowing the extent of damage and loss caused without conducting: statistical, financial, compliance, operational, engineering, forensic, scientific research strictly in the public interest. And the culprits’ assurances (that it’s not a big deal; extremely small and low risk; we corrected it immediately, and some other lies given in order to avoid justice) are not worth a penny. When will every individual authority, or body, or entity listed above scrutinize each documented mistake and problem that together have created or could have created perhaps millions of defects every year? Will a rudimentary and logical action of asking questions - on behalf of actual victims, electrical safety services consumers and people - and forcing the pair or government to answer each question individually save lives? Will there be a hearing in the Legislature or a public inquiry into the documented failures, reported dangers and statistically inevitable casualties on a mass scale in the past. Will more horror happen today, tomorrow and in the next 10 years if there is no formal investigation now?
Why isn't it clear that:
1. even a single electrical mistake, or an uninspected installation, or a defect can ignite a fire or kill?
2. thousands of these errors statistically inflict random fatalities every year?
3. each of the 16M unaware and uninformed Ontarians would absolutely protest their family being exposed to even a single such safety failure or to be affected by dangers associated with it?
4. no Ontarian property owner would agree to be a recipient of even one such mistake?
5. zero electrical defects is better and safer than hundreds, or thousands, or millions of them?
6. learning the root causes of mistakes is better than repeating them thousands of times over
7. it is safer to stop making various unsafe, high risk, serious risk of fire, etc. mistakes after the first complaint than to continue making them for years and even after hundreds of such complaints?
8. the pair has made tens or hundreds of thousands of formally documented individual errors, statistically adding perhaps millions of defects and random risk, danger, accidents, fires, injuries, deaths?
9. one lean, effective and efficient regulator charging LECs one or two reasonable fees is better than three ineffective and inefficient ones charging four excessive, parasitic and counterproductive fees?
10. failing duties, statutes, mandates and charging millions of dollars for doing so is a crime?
11. red tape, overregulation, overcharging, etc. push ≈ 45% of the sector's electrical work underground?
12. all these absolutely obvious or documented things are not obvious to the regulators and government?
13. 4,000 or more LECs have been working “under the table” since 2007 because of the foregoing?
14. they have performed millions of illegal installations with a humongous unknown damage and loss?
15. all this is still hidden from the public and victims on purpose?
One answer to all 15 questions is - because the "public servants" make more money off of it for themselves. And their giving individual answers to individual questions would instantly: expose them; stop their rabid feeding frenzy; save lives; and put many of them behind bars for intentionally causing mass torment for money. Will the public at last get individual answers?
Please read for 20 seconds this partial list copied from the Audit, then read for three minutes what the ESA and the Minister testified in 2021 and 2022, then continue repeating these two steps five times. You will see that the Audit findings absolutely contradict the pair's testimony. The list and the Audit say: unable, ineffective, unsuccessful, not fully effective, not successful; the ESA has not developed, has not established, has not ensured, has not confirmed, has not fulfilled, has not undertaken, has not included, has not used meaningful operational performance metrics, has not addressed the situation, has not mitigated the risk, has been operating inefficiently; did not support, did not know, did not adopt technology; does not complete; the ESA is not operating effectively and in a cost-efficient way; not following up on thousands of inspected unsafe electrical installations; does not confirm that unsafe installations identified by general inspections are ever fixed, even when the installations pose a serious risk of fire and/or electrocution; not meeting the spirit and intent of Ontario government directives; conducts unnecessary inspections that do not contribute to improved public safety; not reducing its inspections to become more efficient, not fulfilling all of its responsibilities under Part VIII of the Electricity Act, 1998 and the Safety and Consumer Statutes Administration Act, 1996 (Acts) to improve public electrical safety, etc. Each or many of these points consist of tens of thousands of individual failures. Some of these screw-ups have been going on: for many years; others for as long as 10 years; or even for most of its [ESA's] existence. But in 2021 and 2022 the ESA and the Minister testify - we are pleased; proud; achievements; excellence; improvements; successes; progress, etc. - about their failures. If the personnel of these authorities have not: made the formally proven screw ups, repeated all these documented mistakes, then who has committed them? Or was it a deliberate, covert, highly organized government criminal operation where repeating each mistake generated revenue, ultimately boosting the paychecks of its leadership?
This defies logic, common sense, law, justice. An urgent comprehensive investigation is necessary to calculate total numbers of: illegal uninspected installations; perhaps dozens of millions of defects implanted in structures; accidents; fires; victims. To individually notify every victim and customer since 2007; publicize this for all Ontarians to know; expose the perpetrators; and the horror caused.
I'll explain in detail how in just two or three hours, you can see for yourself with absolute certainty that (B + C + D) - the heinous and horrendous point of safety deterioration is still going on.
You can make 10 to 20 phone calls to LECs. Or hire an outside opinion polling or public survey firm. Such (impartial and if necessary anonymous) recordings will make them admissible and trustworthy material evidence beyond a reasonable doubt. I will teach how and what to say so that it sounds natural and doesn't raise any suspicion from the LECs. Very briefly it is described here.
Again, this evidence and your action would absolutely prove that thousands of LECs (I'm sure a much larger portion than 45%) still operate or attempt to work without obtaining mandatory permits and without passing compulsory safety inspections as of May 2024. No one: enforces compliance; prosecutes the LECs who work without filing notifications with ESA. Together, the regulators intentionally, and LECs coercively commit hundreds of thousands of contraventions and uninspected installations (which are formally and legally classified as unsafe) every year. The anguish is only possible because all the authorities still ignore, hide, act against the public, or cover this up even today.
Everyone who was involved, allowed, approved, participated in doing this, or accepted, or didn't try to stop this even after hundreds of my complaints should be investigated for various violations, mistakes, offenses, crimes, that have eventually set many fires in Ontario, perhaps burning several people alive.
Non-enforcement against the huge number of these offenders and contraventions results in safety deterioration and non-compliance spiraling out of control. Here is the ultimate result of the pair’s work: more and more sector LECs operate illegally, without fear of punishment. Ultimately, of the 1,000 or so electrical injuries that occur in Ontario, nearly half are in the general public. More electrical fatalities happen at home than at work in Ontario. ESA is monitoring (or causing) this reversal in a historic trend. But these stats and heinous results don't horrify the authorities. They know all this but do nothing.
If you choose to act to protect the public, you will quickly see the peril and be absolutely convinced of the resulting loss and torment deliberately or at least knowingly and brazenly inflicted by the pair. You will also learn of the enormity of the random danger and the statistically inflicted harm.
This may be the most atrocious, hitherto unknown to the public, perhaps the deadliest case in recent Canadian history with many actual victims from 2007 to the present. While the total amount of the unnecessarily extracted payments, counterproductive fees and penalties ranges from $100M to $500M. The total damage to the public and the dark figure of crime could be up to ten times that amount.
Public servants must immediately begin to serve the public. When there are signs of widespread danger that increase or can increase the probability of, number, or rate of fatalities, authorities must pay attention to the facts, documented evidence, first-hand witnesses, the Auditor's findings. Confessing offenders' testimony must be instantly heard. Anyone who has: an authority or duty to act; or an ability to take action; or to investigate and stop the anguish - but ignores, refuses to act, or hides, covers up, or blocks the facts and truth, or sabotages an investigation, or acts against the public - becomes complicit in crime. Exposing the truth, whistleblowing and saving lives must be done immediately.
This is what you and I will achieve if we act. I ask or want nothing for myself.
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Thank you. Created on March 8, 2022. Last updated October 25, 2024.
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Please use this approach - ask: who, when, how, why, etc. made the first mistake. Who, when, why, etc. has then repeated it tens, or hundreds, or thousands of times? Let’s start with this documented fundamental, major and critical failure on the list:
in giving inspectors this discretion in choosing what to inspect, the ESA has not mitigated the risk that inspectors will over inspect simpler installations and fail to inspect all complex installations as required.
- please ask yourself the following questions, and then if you see an: indicator of electrical safety deterioration; or wrongdoing; or fire risk; or threat, email to the ESA and ask it these questions:
- why has the ESA not mitigated that particular risk?
- what exactly does "has not mitigated the risk" mean? Does it mean the existence of actual risk at an elevated level for a number of years, resulting in a statistically higher number of structure fires? And/or did it or could it have resulted in more electrical accidents?
- has not mitigating that particular risk protected the public or endangered it?
- has it increased the fire risk slightly or significantly?
- is charging fees for over inspecting simpler installations bad or wrong? Is charging fees for failing to inspect all complex installations as required dangerous or criminal? Was every extremely experienced and knowledgeable ESA executive supposed to see the obvious or understand rudimentary things?
- was the ESA specifically created, existed and operated to mitigate any and all such risks?
- was not mitigating all risks diametrically contrary to the ESA's mandate of improving electrical safety?
- was it in line with or against the ESA's primary objective of protecting the public?
- when did it start? Why wasn't it stopped after one, two, five, or 10, etc. years?
- who was responsible on the first, second, fifth, tenth, etc. day, month, or year for doing this?
- was each ESA senior officer, executive and board director aware of or involved in doing this?
- what did each one of them do to stop, reverse or report it to the victims, public, or authorities?
- I have been relentlessly warning about this failure since 2014. Which senior officers, executives and board directors received them, when, and how many? Was each of them obliged to stop after getting the first complaint rather than continuing to do so for years and even after hundreds of my demands to stop?
- has not mitigating some risks harmed, or could it have tormented more Ontarians, or statistically added more actual random tragedies, or could it have burned a few real people alive?
- could the avoidance of this particular failure have prevented some of the past fires and tragedies?
- would it be in the public interest if this fundamental error had never occurred and continued?
- has ESA saved time, money, manpower and other resources by failing to: fulfill its statutes, regulations, mandate, duties, responsibilities; do its job in the field of risk mitigation?
- has not mitigating these particular risks resulted in earning higher income or illicit revenues?
- has this resulted in consistently posting higher net income for many days, months or years?
- has this eventually increased the total remuneration of the ESA's top brass?
- has not mitigating these risks financially benefited the pair’s leadership each year over many years?
- could self-remuneration have been the intention, or the purpose, or the primary reason for this particular failure that has gone on for years despite my relentless complaining?
- has this point helped to achieve what the government intended to accomplish by creating the ESA? Or have both the people and the government gotten the opposite results in terms of electrical safety?
- could getting individual detailed answers be in the best interests of consumers?
- would a meticulous investigation of this failure improve public fire protection, prevention, and safety?
- does each direct, indirect, possible, probable, potential, actual or statistically expected victim and the public have the right to know all details about this critical failure and alleged random harm it has caused?
- if this point has even a tiny sign of increasing danger, shall authorities hire an impartial body to probe it from the electrical and fire safety point of view and then report to the media, every victim & all Ontarians?
It is critical to keep in mind that: some individual screw-ups lasted for many years; others for as long as 10 years; or even for most of its [ESA's] existence; others have been repeated tens, or hundreds, or thousands, or even 133,000 times each; some of them are formally documented as still happening in 2024 and not eliminated. And It is critical to keep in mind that: all this has been going on despite my incessant complaints, warnings & demands to stop, addressed to the pair & dozens of other authorities.
Please use the above approach to the second failure documented in the Audit or given in the list. And then to the third, 10th, 100th, etc. point and then to each individual repetition. There would be hundreds of thousands of questions for all the formally proven individual errors. Please demand as many individual answers. But perhaps just the first 100 answers will be enough to learn the truth.
Would you agree that asking questions of authorities can't hurt anybody? And that demanding individual answers could or would improve safety in Ontario, prevent some or many fires, promote government accountability to and protect the public? Would you agree that some of these "life & death" ongoing issues and lack of: action, mercy, compassion, humanity, and concern for the lives and well-being of consumers, translate into more failures, and statistically inflict more random electrical structure fires?
Extracting individual answers using the aforementioned approach will demonstrate how the ESA:
significantly increased its malicious revenues from collecting parasitic fees since 2007
had further increased these fees contrary to the Auditor’s recommendations to lower them
had not allocated funds absolutely necessary for catching thousands of LECs, whom the ESA have first ripped off, abused, overcharged, and forced to work "under the table". This expense to enforce compliance and legitimate inspected work was critically necessary. But instead of being spent on safety improvements the "saved" amount increased ESA’s income
A portion of the higher illicit revenues described in (paragraphs 1. & 2.) and of the "savings" described in (paragraph 3. immediately above) ends up in the ESA leadership paychecks. Another portion is paid to the Ministry, demonstrating their perfectly organized, ongoing reciprocal self-remuneration scam. It’s a monetary reward for doing terrible things to Ontarians.
Now please go back and email the same questions to the Ministry. It is in charge of overseeing the ESA, consumer protection, and is accountable to the people of Ontario. Extracting individual answers from other provincial & federal authorities will also expose the anguish. I’ll prepare emails to be sent to them.
If there had been no: errors; abuse; redundant, excessive, parasitic, mandatory but counterproductive fees. Or if all the illegal, heinous, deadly things described in this document had been fixed shortly after the pair began making them; or after getting my first, or 15th, or 50th demands to stop, there would not have been thousands of LECs working illegally and skipping mandatory safety inspections. There would not have been thousands of uninspected installations documented in the Audit. Hundreds of thousands or millions of defects would not have been added into structures. There would have been fewer: accidents, fires, injuries, fatalities in Ontario. And you would not have received this document!
If the pair still refuse to be accountable to the public for their every individual error, the ESA and the Ministry must be scrutinized to determine if each such mistake was repeated hundreds or thousands of times on purpose to generate millions of dollars in illicit revenue. And if a part of the net income went into salaries, benefits, pensions, allowances, reimbursements, compensations, etc. of the top brass of the regulators. And if another portion was then paid to the Ministry and then distributed to other officials.
Doesn't the receipt of these substantial aggregate additional personal financial rewards explain: the persistence of making safety mistakes over many years; the systemic and systematic failures to fulfill the statutes, mandate, mission, vision, policies; the organized abuse of power; the continuous sabotage of hundreds of my demands to stop; and the cover up from all authorities and officials? Doesn't all of the above prove criminal intent of self-enrichment which, statistically, has caused more fatalities?
Do other safety regulators in their right mind incessantly repeat various safety errors thousands of times? Or does this prove that the pair deliberately committed a huge number of electrical and fire code violations and offences in order to boost revenues and personal financial remuneration?
Again. Please review the failure points given in the formal Audit or the list. Only trust the documented facts. When you see an obvious mistake that could increase risk or danger, you realize that you wouldn't want such a mistake made in your home or at the expense of your family's safety, and neither would anyone else. And that each of these mistakes and all of them together have been made and repeated by the safety regulators to the detriment of Ontario consumers. You will also understand that all of the things described in the Audit and herein have endangered people for money. What has already happened and continues to endanger Ontarians today will horrify you more than some real stories of convicted serial killers once you put yourself in the shoes of the victims in this case.
Electricity Act. Offences
(12) Every person,
(b) refusing or neglecting to comply with this section, or with any regulation, plan or specification made under its authority, is guilty of an offence and on conviction is liable to a fine of not more than $50,000 or to imprisonment for a term of not more than one year, or to both;
Same, corporation
(13) A corporation that is guilty of an offence described in subsection (12) is liable, on conviction, to a fine of not more than $1,000,000. 2006, c. 34, s. 12 (2).
Fire Protection and Prevention Act. Offence, director or officer of corporation
(5) A director or officer of a corporation who knows that the corporation is violating or has violated a provision of the fire code is guilty of an offence and on conviction is liable to a fine of not more than $50,000 for a first offence and not more than $100,000 for a subsequent offence or to imprisonment for a term of not more than one year, or to both. 2005, c. 33, s. 8; 2019, c. 7, Sched. 29, s. 2 (2).
Liability of directors
(6) Despite subsections (1) and (3), every director or officer of a corporation who knowingly commits an offence under subsection (1) is guilty of an offence and on conviction is liable to a fine of not more than $50,000 for a first offence and not more than $100,000 for a subsequent offence or to imprisonment for a term of not more than one year, or to both. 2005, c. 33, s. 8; 2019, c. 7, Sched. 29, s. 2 (2)?
Breach of trust by public officer
122 Every official who, in connection with the duties of their office, commits fraud or a breach of trust, whether or not the fraud or breach of trust would be an offence if it were committed in relation to a private person, is guilty of
(a) an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than five years; or
(b) an offence punishable on summary conviction.
The Electrical Safety Authority (ESA) regulates and promotes electrical safety in Ontario. The Ontario government has given ESA a mandate to improve public electrical safety.
The [ESA] Board is accountable to stakeholders for ESA’s performance. Stakeholders include participants in the electrical industry, government and the general public.
ESA’s delegated responsibility makes the Board accountable to the public for its electrical safety mandate.
The power and legislation stems from the Canadian people through the constitution. The executive authority is entrusted to the government on behalf of the people. This underlines the fact that "governments are the servants of the people and not the reverse". But even today, no official or government body is accountable to me or to Ontarians, citizens, taxpayers who have been exposed to, or affected, or victimized by the formally documented failures.
The Minister is accountable to the people of Ontario as a member of the Legislative Assembly and to the Legislative Assembly as a Minister of the Crown in right of Ontario;
The Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery (MPBSD) reports and responds to the Legislature for ESA's activities. The Ministry is also responsible for ESA fulfilling its statutory (or legal) mandate. The Administrative Agreement is the contractual agreement between the Ministry, MGCS/MPBSD, and the Electrical Safety Authority, ESA, also referred to as the "Administrative Authority."
The Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery is in charge of overseeing consumer protection.
On paper, the Minister and the Administrative Authority intend to exercise their powers and duties under the SCSAA and the Act in such a manner as to protect, enhance, and improve public safety and carry out and perform this Agreement in a manner consistent with the objective of ensuring a fair, safe and informed marketplace that supports a competitive economy.
In real life, they do a lot of things the opposite way because it's much more financially beneficial to them.
The ESA breaches its own Advisory Councils policy and obstructs Stakeholder Engagement principles. It still blocks my testimony under oath and voluntary confessions from first-hand witnesses, involuntary offenders, forced accomplices, critics, opponents; whistleblowers.
Uninformed citizens are unable to hold the government accountable. Freedom of information laws state that the public has the right to know the truth and to be informed to the fullest extent possible so that people can fully participate in the democratic process and hold elected officials and public servants accountable for the wrongs they commit on behalf of, but against, the people. That's why I formally and respectfully demand full publicity for Ontarians to know all the details. For example, why and when each mistake was made for the first time; who made it; and who then repeated it 5, 10, 100 or 10,000, or 133,000 times (despite my numerous ongoing warnings). Who benefited financially from each of them and shared millions of dollars. Who ignored or sabotaged my every demand to stop making them. Who blocked the investigation of each mistake. What the consequences were and who paid the ultimate price.
To stop the anguish, I demand an opportunity to testify under oath to all these people at once: the ESA’s Advisory Councils, the Stakeholder Engagement body, all senior officers, executives and board directors, and the MPBSD. And then to: the Auditor General of Ontario; the Standing Committee on Public Accounts; the Solicitor General; the Legislative Assembly. I will testify about what I experienced and witnessed during my many years as an electrical contractor in Ontario. And about what I then discovered as an investigator and safety advocate. It's critical to remember that after years of my warnings, complaints and demands to stop making these mistakes, which I sent to the pair since 2014 and they ignored, blocked or sabotaged, the Auditor General of Ontario confirmed most of them as facts, at the end of 2020. In addition, the Auditor found tens of thousands of the pair's other blunders. Some of them continue today. But no investigation took place; no individual answers given; no perpetrators found, questioned and punished; no justice served; no root causes scrutinized since 2014. The almighty perpetrators continue to financially reward themselves at the expense of the consumers in 2024. There is no restitution to the victims, who are still not: informed, protected, compensated, redressed, avenged. Many future tragedies are not averted. A new 2024 audit, or a formal urgent independent and impartial investigation, or a public inquiry, or my public testimony will again uncover thousands of new ESA errors and confirm that I am right in 2024 and have been right all this time since 2013. It will show that ESA continues to cause harm and torment on the massive scale for self-remuneration of its leaders.
On the one hand, there are: access to information, the public's right to know and accountability provisions.
On the other hand, the public servants in this case abuse their power. They make and repeat the self-remunerating mistakes hundreds or thousands of times each. They do it despite hundreds of ongoing demands not to. They abuse power again by refusing to investigate themselves. As a result, no record of the violent consequences of their safety failures is created. Then they abuse power yet again by ignoring FOI requests and block demands to testify from the public. They obstruct investigations and cover everything up. It is impossible for the public: to hold them accountable; to get answers to questions; to obtain the unlawfully suppressed and therefore non-existent records and details about who, how, when and why made the mistakes, who benefited financially from repeating them, and how many victims they harmed. Good laws exist, but the public is unable to use them. Because evidence is deliberately suppressed, witnesses are not allowed to testify, and records of a grave health or massive safety hazard are ignored, or artificially blocked, or withheld from FOI and access to information requesters. The truth is unattainable, making it a perfect never ending and invincible source of elicit self-remuneration for the culprits and torment for consumers.
Putting oneself in the victim's shoes will horrify anyone. By making it mandatory for officials to individually answer each question from the public, the province will almost instantly begin saving millions of dollars in reduced: red tape; waste; bloating; overregulation; overcharging; ineffectiveness; corruption; loss; damage. It will prevent many accidents, fires, injuries and fatalities - all of that at no additional cost. Exposing this matter will enforce the: rule of law; common sense; a fair, safe and informed marketplace that supports a competitive economy. It will save billions of dollars in other Ontario cases where public servants act against the public! But most importantly it will save many lives!
