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Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s very first political act was to scrap the provincial cap and trade system. He framed the decision as 'promise made, promise kept,' circulating a video tweet that features gas tank prices going down.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SHEILA COPPS

July 9, 2018

OTTAWA—Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s very first political act was to scrap the provincial cap and trade system. He framed the decision as “promise made, promise kept," circulating a video tweet that features gas tank prices going down. As of last Thursday, 32,000 people had viewed the tweet an...

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