Doug Ford

The Trudeau government's climate change spat with Ontario Premier Doug Ford expanded across Canada on Wednesday as Alberta United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney argued that Ottawa was playing favourites by threatening "to punish Ontarians financially."

About $420 million in federal funding is on the line after Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced that his government was beginning an "orderly wind-down" of the province's green programs.

Ontario has a new environment minister with a background in gambling, an energy minister who has taken on Indigenous affairs and no one in cabinet whose main job will be tackling immigration.

Doug Ford is now the premier of Ontario, putting an end to 15 years of Liberal rule in Canada's most populous province, with a brand new 21-member cabinet.

Hours before Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford was to be sworn in, Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner said the new premier should make sure he has an alternate plan in place so that Ontario residents don't wind up paying for the changes in government policy.

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.

Toronto City Council is set to kick off a three-day meeting Tuesday, their first since Doug Ford was elected Ontario’s next premier, and some city councillors are using the opportunity to tell Ford they think some of his major election promises suck.

The implications for the Conservatives are serious. Scrapping Ontario’s cap and trade system will be “messy and costly”

John Gorman, president of the Canadian Solar Industries Association, says the shutting down of Ontario's rebate agency that had been funded by the cap and trade program will put a “chill” on a part of the province’s solar business.

A disappointed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is planning an intervention in Ontario after Doug Ford announced he was abandoning his province's commitment to a national climate change plan.

The agency offered rebates of up to thousands of dollars for new insulation, replacement windows, solar installations, heat pumps and smart thermostats.

Ontario's incoming premier has put the public service under a hiring freeze as part of a series of measures meant to limit spending as he re-examines the province's books.

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says she expects to have some "interesting conversations" with Ontario Premier-designate Doug Ford about climate change policies.

The decision to move quickly to fulfill this particular campaign pledge will likely create turmoil in the secondary market, where those that have bought credits to release pollution in the future will feel compelled to sell them at a discount since they now appear virtually worthless.

Vowing to stand with the federal Liberals, Ontario's Progressive Conservative premier-designate said he will travel widely in the United States in a bid to help bolster continuing and complex NAFTA talks.