Instead of listening to the opposition’s pleas to take action on the climate crisis, as I witnessed from the Queen’s Park gallery, the Ford government continues to treat climate change as a partisan issue. This is dangerous, immoral and short sighted.

Environment Minister Rod Phillips made a brief statement and then exited. One by one, other Conservative members followed his lead. A chain of broken records, they touted the PCs’ made-in-Ontario plan as an amazing solution to climate change.

As a physician, I study evidence prior to educating patients on treatment options. I have read their plan. It reads like a vague, hypocritical brochure. It is no treatment for this emergency; it is at best a placebo.

Shame on the Ford government for its lack of concern, lack of action and lack of integrity by putting party over humanity.

Dr. Jillian Alston, Toronto

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