PCs’ vague climate plan might just be ‘for the people’

Don’t be too hard on Doug Ford. His climate change plan is largely empty. But in real terms no one else is doing much either. Maybe that’s what people want.

Doug Ford's new Ontario plan is an attempt to devise a climate change solution that does not involve the carbon tax Ford campaigned against. To that end, the Progressive Conservative government has borrowed broadly and shamelessly, writes Thomas Walkom.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY THOMAS WALKOM

December 10, 2018

TORONTO—Doug Ford’s climate change plan is sorely lacking. It is not entirely a bust. As York University environmentalist Mark Winfield writes, the Ontario premier’s blueprint for dealing with global warming contains some "surprisingly progressive" elements—including a commitment to take cl...

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