This paper is a critical analysis of the issues that are related to the efforts in privatizing Ontario Hydro. In evaluating various points of argument, this paper indicates that it may prove wiser to keep the electrical utility within the public sector, managed and developed as needed by public moneys, and also, continuing to employ Ontarians about the province according to wages and conditions that have been usual and which in some parts of Ontario are an important aspect of local economies. When the issues are examined in terms of what would benefit ordinary citizens of the province who enjoy affordable electricity in return for their tax dollar and past tax investment, the privatization of Ontario Hydro does not seem advisable in the long term, as appealing as it may be to capitalist interests, in the short term7 pgs. 2 sources.