Albertans overpaid on electricity bills for decades: report

A new report says when the province deregulated electricity generation in 2001, it forced Albertans to pay billions more for their power. The Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) says its report, called Power in the Public Interest, "lays bare the failures of the current system." "The change to deregulated electricity generation was an ideological leap of faith," said AFL president Gil McGowan. "Returning to a regulated system is the opposite of that – it's a return to the tried, tested, and