cap-and-trade system

Though he officially takes up the premier's mantle on Friday, June 29, 2018, Doug Ford has already set the wheels in motion for several of his plans for Ontario — and one expert predicts the Progressive Conservative leader will move quickly on his agenda once he seizes the reins of the province.

The Conservatives threatened to force the House of Commons to sit all night Thursday, June 14, 2018, if the government did not agree to produce an analysis of how much its carbon price is going to cost Canadian families.

A spokesman for Doug Ford says Ontario's incoming premier is determined to deliver on his campaign promise to scrap the "disastrous" cap-and-trade system and fight a federal carbon tax.

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says Ontario still has a choice to make on climate change legislation despite its incoming premier's promises to do away with carbon pricing.

The Saskatchewan government is asking the province's Appeal Court to rule on whether Ottawa can impose a carbon tax but the federal government says it is confident it will prevail.

Scrapping Ontario's cap-and-trade system would make no sense, the governor of California said on Monday, April 16, 2018, as he weighed in on a key Ontario election issue.

No province has yet shown interest in signing on to the federal government's carbon pricing system instead of creating their own, potentially setting up a log jam for Ottawa to meet its deadline for every province to have a $20 a tonne price on pollution by Jan. 1.

Opposition to Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline has followed Justin Trudeau to sunny California, where protesters demonstrated on Friday outside the hotel where the prime minister was holding meetings with top state officials.

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development released its assessment of Canada’s environmental performance on Tuesday.

Manitoba's sustainable development minister says a federal threat to impose a higher carbon tax on the province is misguided and reveals a breakdown of co-operative federalism.