This bill is unfortunate. …

This bill is unfortunate. This leaves Ontario with no climate change plan whatsoever. Climate change is real and by taking no action, you are "mortgaging the future" of our children and grandchildren. Financial debt can be overcome, environmental debt may never be. It is like that old oil filter commercial: "you can pay now or you can pay later" meaning that paying later is much more costly. In this case costly in money and maybe lives.

Cap and trade provides money for green initiatives - helps to pay for the much needed changes to our economy and our society. Further, the world is going green (more people are employed in the solar industry in Texas than the oil industry). We will be left behind. This is a bad idea.

I emphasize again. You have no plan for dealing with climate change - neither to mitigate climate change effects (CO2 production) nor to deal with the effects of climate change - more flooding, more fires, more extreme weather events. No plan and no money for any plan you do come up with, because cap and trade has ended.