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Whatever one’s view of Ontario Premier Doug Ford legislatively killing cap-and-trade this week, no one can claim he didn’t have a mandate to do it.

Ford campaigned on ending former premier Kathleen Wynne’s carbon pricing scheme in the June provincial election that brought him to power.

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By contrast, Wynne said nothing about imposing carbon pricing on Ontarians in the 2014 election that brought her Liberal government to power.

After that election, she said she had no plans to introduce a carbon tax.

Instead, she introduced cap-and-trade.

While not technically a carbon tax, cap-and-trade impacts the public in the same way.

In Wynne’s case, it was raising $2 billion annually in new revenue for her government, paid for by consumers in higher retail prices for most goods and services.

Ford also ran on challenging in court the carbon tax Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will now impose on Ontario, following Ford’s scrapping of cap-and-trade.