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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s accusation Ontario Premier Doug Ford is “moving the goalposts … (a) step backwards” on the province’s industrial greenhouse gas emission targets is laughable, given the Liberals’ sorry history on this issue.

To say nothing of hypocritical.

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First, a brief explanation of why this controversy about “goalposts” erupted at Friday’s first ministers’ meeting.

Ford accused Trudeau and Environment Minister Catherine McKenna of “moving the goalposts” on Ontario because they rejected his plan to reduce the province’s emissions to 30% below 2005 levels by 2030, which is Trudeau’s national standard for all of Canada.

They responded Ford moved the goalposts because he scrapped former Ontario Liberal premier Kathleen Wynne’s cap-and-trade scheme, intended to lower provincial emissions to 37% below 1990 levels by 2030, a deeper cut.