The mandate letter written for the province’s environment minister suggests his task was to remove environmental and climate legislation, not to create more of it.
first took office in 2018, his first environmental minister was given a simple yet central task: get climate legislation out of the way of business.
“Ensure these regulatory and legislative requirements are not placing undue burdens on Ontario’s job creators,” Ford’s orders to Phillips read.Similarly, Ford told Jeff Yurek, his then-minister of natural resources and forestry, to make sure laws under his control were not “an undue burden on municipalities, Northerners, or businesses.”
The first directive laid out in the list was to wind down cap-and-trade. The program was introduced by the Ontario Liberals to reduce emissions by charging companies that pollute more and rewarding those that emit fewer emissions. Companies with higher carbon footprints had to buy or swap credits under the system to allow them to exceed strict targets.
To combat that, the environment minister was also told to work with his colleagues at the attorney general’s office to fight the “imposition of a regressive carbon tax on Ontario’s citizens” and to use legal action to “stop this carbon tax in its tracks.” Implement our environment commitments once cap-and-trade is repealed. These include investing in cleaner air and water, increasing enforcement of environmental standards against big polluters, cleaning up garbage and litter in parks and neighbourhoods, and creating an emissions reduction investment fund to fight climate change.
Work with the Minister of Energy and the Minister of Transportation to evaluate low-carbon technologies, such as natural gas trucking and bussing, that can be implemented in Ontario with limited intrusion and cost to taxpayers. Ensure these investments deliver the best value-for-money possible.Affordability and reliability of the energy grid are your top priorities. Deliver a more affordable grid that Ontarians can rely on while putting consumer choice at the forefront of your decisions.
Review the province’s industrial electricity systems and report on options to fix the system, offer a simpler to understand suite of options and increase investment through better industrial pricing systems. In your work, take efforts to preserve existing benefits for Ontario businesses and improve upon them.
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