The Ontario government is moving ahead with its Supreme Court appeal of the federal carbon tax, Attorney General Doug Downey told the Star Tuesday.

“Currently we’re in a position where we’ve decided to move forward with the case and that’s status quo,” Downey told the Star in an interview at his Toronto office that was scheduled before Monday’s federal election.

Premier Doug Ford had suggested in August that his government would reconsider the province’s constitutional challenge should the Conservatives lose the federal election, which they did. The Liberals remain in power, although as a minority government.

“The people are going to decide when the election’s over,” Ford said in August. “Once the people decide, I believe in democracy.”

The Ontario Court of Appeal ruled in June that Ottawa’s Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act is constitutional, as did Saskatchewan’s top court. Both provinces have appealed the respective decisions to the Supreme Court of Canada.

Downey said the government recently filed its written submissions with the Supreme Court and has not changed course. He also said Ontario is open to ongoing discussion with the federal government and the other provinces.

“We are still looking at every strategy that we can to make sure that we’re doing what we said we were doing in the first place, which is leave money in people’s pockets and not dealing with any unnecessary taxes,” he said.

Provinces without their own carbon pollution pricing system are currently taxed $20 per tonne of emissions by the federal government, though most of the money is returned to residents as rebates.

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