Bob Mackin
BC Hydro said it did not create any documents about a high-profile part of the NDP government’s retaliation campaign against Donald Trump’s tariffs.
On March 12, Premier David Eby’s government cancelled CleanBC and BC Hydro rebates on Tesla products, taking aim at Trump’s biggest 2024 campaign funder, Elon Musk.
Adrian Dix documented his November 2024 swearing-in as Energy Minister, with Lt. Gov. Janet Austin. (BC Gov/Flickr)
theBreaker.news asked BC Hydro, under freedom of information, for a copy of the report that was the basis for the decision and a copy of the related briefing note for the executive and board about the topic.
The Crown corporation replied April 29, to say that it searched its files and found no records.
Pressed to double-check, BC Hydro told theBreaker.news on May 28 that there are no records because the decision was not documented.
“The policy change direction was communicated verbally by the Ministry of Energy and Climate Solutions, we regularly coordinate in our ongoing collaboration with the Ministry on various programs, incentives, and rebates for our customers,” said Deanna Hamber, Hydro’s freedom of information and privacy manager.
Minister Adrian Dix, who is responsible for BC Hydro, did not respond to a text message from theBreaker.news.
While in opposition, under Dix and then John Horgan, the NDP relentlessly attacked the BC Liberals for deleting documents or not even creating documents. It tabled a 2016 private member’s bill that proposed a statutory requirement to document a “decision by a government body respecting a course of action that directly affects a person or the operations of the government body.”
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