Excerpt from Public Ownership and the Hydro-Electric Commission of Ontario: Being a Reprint of a Series of Articles Which Appeared in the Financial Post of Canada, Toronto, Between July 15 and December 23, 1916Under the hypnotic in¿uences which have been mentioned the Government se cured the passing of legislation which established the hydro-electric Commis sion with extraordinarily wide powers. The members of the Com-mission were appointed by the Government in Jena-3 ary, 1906, and the construction of a transmission line was commenced after the Commission had made an inquiry which extended over about two months.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.