This resource calls for the Ontario government and law enforcement to end the ESA's monopoly, cut fees across the board.

Limit its absolute power. Investigate and stop the alleged criminal abuse of that power and unjust self-enrichment.

Expose fundamental flaws that deteriorate safety causing more accidents, fires, and fatalities.

One license for self-employed residential electricians is enough. OCOT, ESA cut the number of licenses and fees


Do you think Electrical Safety Authority and Ontario College of Trades overcharge and abuse self-employed residential electricians? Do you think ESA and OCOT must cut the number of mandatory licenses from three to one and stop charging the unnecessary licensing fees.

YOU and I shall push the ESA to allow licensed electricians with a single license and seven or eight years of hands-on experience (including apprenticeship) to do residential electrical work. NO one could make ESA and OCOT do it but us.

ESA and OCOT must get together, eliminate redundancy, agree on one license issued once for life.

We need only one regulator for all electrical work. Two of them is one too many.

A new leadership and executives are needed to transform things from two dysfunctional, parasitic, abusive, criminal, money sucking black holes into one efficient operational and useful for the society organization.

The new entity shall drastically reduce the licensing fee to say $50 a year, free of any repeated charges or fees whatsoever.

There is no actual or real need to charge $604 with HST or so in total annual licensing fees. Most of this money collected from thousands of LECs goes to bureaucrats' high salaries for their parasitic work of creating paperwork, hurdles, delays, red tape, and sabotage.

Will an average residential electrician become a worse one if he paid $50 in total licensing fees instead of $604? The answer is no, of course not.

High school, college and university graduates do not pay any diploma annual fees. They are not doing better or worse because of that. And nothing bad will happen to electricians if they stop paying "the annual feudal dues for the right to work".

It's time to shift that feudal paradigm. If I have a license or CQ, I have the right to work. And I have the right to be self-employed. Period.

ESA, go ahead and prove otherwise. Inspect my work. And make me pay a reasonable amount for that. And while my experience grows, quality of work improves and while mistakes or errors decrease, inspect my work less and less frequently. But charge and fine me more for the defects and errors found.

ESA parasitic bureaucrats, start doing your work, start thinking, improving, cutting waste. Start being creative, efficient, fair, honest, decent and useful for the society.

AGAIN. The ESA should drastically reduce fees and other requirements for self-employed residential repair and renovation electricians.

These are simple ways to do it:

1 Just allow licensed self-employed electricians to do residential electrical work without master electrician and contractor licenses and fees.
or
2 Issue lower category master electrician and contractor non-commercial licenses without additional exams and fees.

A self-employed residential electrician should meet only two more conditions. He must have :
a) two or three years of hands-on residential experience after getting a license and
b) one million liability insurance.


There is no need for a home repair and renovation electrician to pass master's exam on high voltage stations, airport installations, construction cranes and 80% of other stuff required today. There is no logic, no benefit, no need, and no advantage to anybody or to anything in this. It's a waste with a huge price tag for residential electricians. And a significant source of illegal in nature but legalized source of remuneration for ESA executives!

1) Only the highly paid unnecessary executives benefit from the mandatory but unnecessary ME and LEC licenses, and from collecting the unnecessary licensing fees, needless inspection charges, and pointless exam fees. It is against logic and common sense. It is a parasitic abuse of power. It is an offence or a crime.

2) The notion of mandatory master electrician and contractor licenses for the small self-employed residential PROs is a complete nonsense and waste.

Licensed electricians with a single license have been delivering high quality residential wiring 10 years ago, and 20 years ago, and 60 years ago. Safety statistics show no evidence that residential injuries or fires have noticeably decreased explicitly because master electrician and contractor licenses became mandatory in 2006.

3) The introduction of the new licenses and fees was just another grab of money under the pretense of increasing the public safety. The purpose was grand and appealing. The only problem, the public was already safe. And millions of dollars that ESA collected from self-employed residential electricians since 2006 have not made homes much safer specifically due to two more mandatory licenses. But it obviously made the ESA executives richer. They pay themselves tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in higher salaries, benefits, and bonuses.

4) ESA shall refund all the unnecessary fees that residential master electricians and contractors paid since 2006.

5) Do you think ESA abuses its power by introducing unnecessary charges, fees, hurdles, delays and red tape? Do you think ESA hurts and wastes time of the small electrical contractors and overcharges them? Do you think that eventually it is the general public which ends up paying ESA's higher wages, allowances and pensions?



In order to work as a self-employed residential electrician, one must now obtain 3 licenses and pay or rather earn tens of thousands of dollars less over 7 or more years just for the right to start working as a mundane self-employed house electrician.

And then ... ESA allows clueless homeowners to do the identical electrical work without a single license and without a single hour of experience!

Crazy? Not at all.

It is a well organized and thoroughly thought out crime of self-enrichment!

Most experienced licensed electricians and Master electricians do good work, they pay for and pass one inspection. Nothing exciting! So ESA bans them if they want to be self-employed.

ESA's policy today is:

If you are an unlicensed, absolutely clueless, absolutely unqualified homeowner with zero knowledge and zero training, and if you have no idea how to do it, no problem - just go ahead, do it, and pass an inspection. Why? Because most absolutely inexperienced homeowners do the work with many errors and then pay, pay, pay several times for passing multiple inspections and fixing new defects found by ESA again and again.

If you are a best PRO electrician, stop, you are not allowed to do it. First you must pay all four fees: OCOT, ME, LEC, and inspection fee for each job, only then ESA would allow you to do the basic residential repair work!

If a non-ACP LEC specializes in small jobs like adding one receptacle, or two switches, or lights, he charges customers from $100 to $300. And he must pay $79 + HST inspection fee to ESA for each such job. Which is 30% or even more of the gross income and an even higher percentage of his net income. Every such LEC must pay ESA thousands of dollars every year for the right to be self-employed doing rudimentary residential renovation work.

No matter absolutely clueless or extremely highly experienced PRO, everybody must always pay, pay, pay money to ESA!
It is a very exciting and safe bonanza!

Banning licensed highly experienced electricians and allowing clueless people to do the same electrical work defies logic and common sense! So what? The ESA criminally organized executives make good money both ways. They charge electrical workers unnecessary fees for two unnecessary licences, pointless exam fees, and unnecessary inspections. Our self-enriching geniuses also get multiple inspection fees from the clueless homeowners. And finally pay themselves lavish remuneration packages. ESA has built communism for itself. It is highly beneficial, rewarding, profitable, simple, and extremely exciting creation of the ESA executives. And it is all legal!

The mystery is unraveled!



But does it looks like the ESA executives have conspired, organized, and implemented this allegedly criminal scam?

What if the only real but hidden reason for these crazy irrational things and unnecessary licenses, inspections, and fees is self-enrichment? What if it is an alleged criminal conspiracy by ESA executives and for the executives to get high salaries, paid overtime, paid vacation, paid statutory holidays, company vehicle, pension plan, post-employment benefits, comprehensive health & dental benefits, coverage including prescription drugs & eyeglasses, multiple allowances, multiple reimbursements, multiple assistance programs, and to financially benefit themselves?



The Ontario government must launch an investigation against criminal self-enrichment of ESA executives. New honest executives should transform two dysfunctional, parasitic, abusive, criminal, money sucking black holes into one efficient operational and useful for the society organization.

It shall abandon some licenses. Introduce different levels of master and contractor licenses. Exams of various complexity should correspond with the scope of intended work. Fees should commensurate with levels of license and the work performed.

The unnecessary and ridiculous inspections of one new receptacle installed or three light fixtures added by a licensed electrical contractor who has 7, 15, 20, or more years of experience must end now! All fees shall be slashed drastically as well all ESA executives' salaries, benefits, pensions, etc.

And of course, homeowners must be banned from doing any electrical work. No exceptions. No exemptions.




Ask ESA a question:

I am a licensed electrician with a total of 7 years of hands-on residential electrical repair and renovation experience. Now I want to do exactly the same work but for myself, become self-employed. Why do I have to pay feudal dues of thousands of dollars to the Electrical Safety Authority for the right to work as a self-employed repair and renovation electrician in Ontario?

Why do I have to pay thousands of dollars to ESA for the right to work for myself doing exactly same work as I did yesterday as an employee?

Why do I have to pass a master electrician's exam, if I were to work for myself as a residential electrician in Ontario?

Why does exam include high voltage stations and many other similar unrelated topics if I were to work for myself as a self-employed residential electrician?

Why does a licensed self-employed residential electrician in Ontario have to study airport installations and many other similar sections?

Why does exam include construction cranes and many other similar irrelevant chapters if I were to work for myself as a residential self-employed electrician?

Why do I have to: obtain 3 licenses, have 12040 hours or more of hands-on experience, pay (or rather earn less) tens of thousands of dollars over 7 or more years of studying, apprenticeship, exams, etc. for the right to start working as a mundane self-employed house electrician?

And why does a homeowner need: zero licenses, zero hours of any experience, need to pay zero dollars over zero years for the right to do electrical work? Why does a homeowner need to: do zero years of studying, take zero courses, zero apprenticeships, and pass zero exams for the right to do exactly same work?


Ask these questions:
Does the ESA realise how damaging the unnecessary licensing fees, needless inspection charges and pointless exam fees are?

Does the ESA know that such fees defy logic, common sense and could be a parasitic abuse of power?

Do these fees constitute a crime benefiting only the highly paid ESA staff, their wages, salaries, allowances, pensions and hurting everybody else?

When is the ESA going to pay back all the fees it illegally collected from me over 2 .. 5 .. 13 years?

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Email ESA these or any other questions ESA.Cambridge@electricalsafety.on.ca

or ask your MPP

Email the Minister directly Ms. Lisa M Thompson. Or visit web site of the Minister of Government and Consumer Services, who is accountable for the ESA activities.

Forward us their replies. We will use them as evidence!

or publicly share your own story of abuse, neglect, unfair treatment, overcharge, crime, etc. Or join us in a class action and sue the ESA if you think they are parasites who possibly committed an offence or a crime.


When a handful of abused folks speak out, nothing happens.

If just 20 or 50 of us start pushing back, we will prevail and restore the justice, common sense and fairness for thousands!


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ESA will never give up fantastic salaries and huge benefits until we refuse to be their cash cows. They will milk us all dry if YOU and I don't stop them in court. So how committed are you to winning?

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ISB - Independent Supervisory Body. We should create it in order to fight for what is just, fair and right

ECAO - Electrical Contractors Association of Ontario

CoAC - Contractor Advisory Council

OESC - Ontario Electrical Safety Code