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Former Premier Kathleen Wynne said nothing about imposing cap-and-trade on Ontarians when she ran in the 2014 election that brought her to power.

Following her victory, she said she had no plans to introduce a carbon tax, before introducing cap-and-trade, a carbon tax by another name.

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Premier Doug Ford on Wednesday tabled legislation he promised during the 2018 election campaign that brought him to power to cancel cap-and-trade.

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By so doing, he has cancelled a $2 billion annual charge on the people and businesses of Ontario and announced he will pay for it by cancelling programs cap-and-trade was to fund.

Thus, Ford and the PCs, who made their intentions clear prior to the vote, are acting with a political integrity lacking when the Wynne Liberals introduced cap-and-trade by stealth.

Under cap-and-trade, the Liberals gave away or sold a gradually declining number of pollution permits to companies emitting industrial greenhouse gases, with those companies passing along the cost to the public in higher retail prices for goods and services.