Winnipeg Free Press By: Dan Lett | Posted: 7:00 PM CDT Thursday, Jul. 8, 2021 Opinion The Manitoba Hydro pig has been back to the salon for a whole new shade of lipstick. The Manitoba Hydro pig has been back to the salon for a whole new shade of lipstick. Subject to months of increasingly shrill criticism, the Progressive Conservative government has unveiled new political spin on Bill 35, the controversial proposed law that re-invents the process of setting annual electricity rate increases. A coalition, which includes consumers groups and the province's biggest industrial power users, is united in its condemnation of Bill 35, portraying it as a dangerous and needless disembowelling of the Public Utilities Board that will ultimately push the cost of electricity in Manitoba to historic heights.