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Comments on proposed Frame for Clean Electricity Regulations

August 16, 2022 Environment and Climate Change Canada Hull Quebec Via E-mail: ecd-dec@ec.gc.ca   Re: Proposed Frame for Clean Electricity Regulations   Dear Environment and Climate Change Canada,   I am writing to comment on the proposed Frame for Clean …


Ontario’s Deepening Hydro Mess

Published in Policy Options, August 8, 2022. Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives went into the 2018 Ontario election campaign promising, among other things, to fix the province’s ‘hydro mess.’    In practice fixing the hydro ‘mess’ turned out to be a lot …


Ontario’s Environment and the Ford Nation Redux

June 3, 2022 Published in the Hamilton Spectator June 9, 2022 The 2022 Ontario election has ended with a strengthened Progressive Conservative (PC) majority. Doug Ford’s win came though on the basis of a historically low (43 per cent) voter …



Four ways Doug Ford has changed the province’s politics

Published in The Conversation, May 17, 2022, The Hamilton Spectator, May 28, 2022. The dismal environmental record of the Doug Ford government in Ontario is well-documented. Despite some recent moves on “greening” the steel sector and electric vehicle manufacturing initiatives, …