Doug Ford’s climate backtrack is exactly why youth litigants vow to press on |
Buried in Ontario’s 2025 Fall Economic Statement was an easily missed, one-line, insidious statement. While the announcement — that Ontario would “repeal sections 3–5 of the Cap and Trade Cancellation Act” — may read like a minor legislative tweak, it represents a seismic shift in how Ontario plans to address one of the greatest threats to humanity.
This repeal takes a hatchet to some of Ontario’s last remaining legislative climate safeguards. It eliminates Ontario’s statutory obligations to have a climate target and plan, without which Ontario’s already feeble response to the climate crisis is all but certain to fail. Perhaps that’s why the government is also removing its climate reporting obligations.
These changes mark an unprecedented rollback of accountability, leaving Ontario rudderless as we sail into a climate catastrophe.
From devastating forest fires to torrential floods and fatal heatwaves, the climate crisis is causing chaos in our communities and making life more expensive. Repealing our targets and giving carte blanche to billion-dollar fossil fuel corporations to pollute with impunity will pour fuel on this raging fire.
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