Carbon pricing is the most…

Carbon pricing is the most effective way, economically, to create a lasting incentive to modernize our economy and to become independent of fossil fuel, thereby avoiding much of the rising financial costs of climate change: at least 95% of economists agree.

The existing cap-and-trade framework has not done any damage to Ontario's economy; the opposite is true.

It is shamefully irrational for the Conservative government to axe the current carbon pricing framework, instead of improving it.

Several alternative models exist – for instance, tax-and-dividend, which would find broad support among citizens, align well with conservative free-market and small-government values, and send a powerful political message to the federal Liberal government.

I urge the provincial government to immediately halt Bill 4 in favour of a smarter approach.