The program is still…

The program is still credited with taking 335 tonnes of pollutants out of the air every year. That might be a worthwhile trade if the government had something to replace Drive Clean. But in typical Ford style, the program is being axed with no suitable replacement. The government is promising a new program to reduce pollution from heavy commercial vehicles, but there's no evidence that will balance out and, in any case, saying they're going to do it and actually doing it are two different things.

This is Ford's modus operandi: See something you don't like and scrap it. He did it with a perfectly sound sex education curriculum. He did it with Basic Income pilot project. He did it with cap-and-trade. All done without having better programs to replace them, and all without consideration for the impact on people from the cancellation. Take cap-and-trade, for example. Killing it addressed Ford's personal ideological agenda, but it also killed the associated revenue so hundreds of millions that was flowing to schools, municipalities and infrastructure immediately dried up. And Ford didn't lift a finger to help mitigate the damage he caused.

The big worry in this case is that the loss of Drive Clean, cap-and-trade and other environmental policies means this province has literally no plan to deal with, manage and adapt to climate change. We have take a huge step backwards