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In political terms, Premier Doug Ford went about cancelling former premier Kathleen Wynne’s cap and trade carbon pricing scheme in the right way.
He ran on doing it in the 2018 Ontario election, and when he won, his Progressive Conservative government scrapped it.
By contrast, Wynne never mentioned introducing any form of carbon pricing when she ran in the 2014 Ontario election that brought her to power, and shortly after she won, said she wasn’t planning to introduce a carbon tax.
Then, as the leader of a Liberal majority government, she introduced cap and trade, which is a carbon tax by another name.
Wherever one stands on the issue of carbon pricing, in political terms, Ford did what he did in the right way, while Wynne did it in the wrong way.
In legal terms, however, a three-judge panel of Ontario’s divisional court ruled on Friday in a 2-1 split decision that the Ford government broke the law when it failed to hold 30 days of public hearings under Ontario’s Environmental Bill of Rights before scrapping cap and trade.
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