Cap and Trade is the best…

Cap and Trade is the best way to provide much needed funds without burdening the taxpayer. It is the best of both worlds - climate action that isn't onerous to business or individuals. Your own calculations showed that the cancellation of cap and trade would save families $250 per YEAR! This is not a meaningful amount when considering the rising cost of living expenses. When natural disasters happen, the taxpayer is ultimately on the hook either with increased taxes or personal expenses to respond to such disasters.

If you cancel cap and trade, what do you plan to put in it's place? Where will you find the money to encourage investment and innovation? We are already cash strapped as province. Reducing revenue by $2B doesn't seem like a pragmatic approach to either financial sustainability or environmental sustainability. A new economy is budding and it's green whether you like it or not. Ontario can either be the leader or be dragged back to the days of coal - days that are evidently numbered.

Reinstate Cap and Trade - take it farther. Put back incentives for hospitals, school and individuals to be more energy efficient. Consider you mandate beyond getting back at your political foes. My children will not care in 10-12 years, a deadline our brightest climate scientists say is our deadline to take decisive action before utter catastrophe, what political rivalries there were at the time. They will only learn and remember the leaders that had a chance to do something and decided instead to play politics with their future.