My comment concerns the…

My comment concerns the enforcement of the Cap and Trade Cancellation Act, 2018.

Under the Act, the Government is required to establish targets for reducing the amount of greenhouse gas emissions in Ontario. The Minister of Environment, Conservation and Parks is required to prepare a climate change plan and to prepare progress reports in respect of the plan.

In my opinion, setting targets and monitoring progress reports is not enough. Without consequences being spelled out, progress reports that show failed attainment of targets will provide little more than political fodder, frustrating everyone and creating governmental bureaucratic waste. The current cap and trade system was an attempt to push consequences into the marketplace, which seems to me to be a good conservative approach to trying to solve the consequence issue.

In my opinion, the Act should not be passed without appropriate and adequate enforcement measures.