Prime minister Justin Trudeau got a tearful plea on hydro prices from a woman in Peterborough on the second day of his cross-country tour.
Kathy Katula, a grandmother of three and mother of four, says she has been working 15 hour days so she can keep her home, but she still can't afford her hydro bill. She says she went without hydro for five days during a heat wave last summer.
She asked Trudeau what he is doing for rural families like hers and how he can justify carbon pricing when it's driving up gas bills.
The crowd cheered her on and Trudeau acknowledged her struggle, but he deflected her questions to the province.
"Hydro bills are provincial," Trudeau said.
Last year, Trudeau announced a plan that will require all provinces and territories to have some form of carbon pricing by 2018. Ontario's cap-and-trade program launched earlier this month.