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th ei fp .c a Th e IF P -H al to n H ill s | T hu rs da y, D ec em be r 14 ,2 01 7 | 38 The debate over cap and trade in Ontario is becom- ing a "he said, she said" kind of affair. Ted Arnott, MPP for Wel- lington-Halton Hills and PC Caucus Critic to the Minis- ter of the Environment and Climate Change, an- nounced his party's "Peo- ple's Guarantee" on the en- vironment on recently at Queen's Park. In it, Arnott vowed the Conservatives will replace the current Liberal cap and trade program with a car- bon pricing system more similar to what the federal Liberal government is pro- posing. "Our Caucus accepts the scientific consensus on cli- mate change. The Earth is warming, human activity is a significant contributing factor, and we in Ontario need to do our part to re- duce carbon emissions," Ar- nott told the legislature at Queen's Park. "Premier Wynne's Government is for a cap-and-trade scheme that will ship 466 million taxpayer dollars to Califor- nia." "Our Caucus categori- cally rejects that approach. But we also know that doing nothing is not an option," added Arnott. "The Tru- deau government in Ottawa is mandating a carbon pric- ing benchmark." "We say that every dollar collected in carbon price revenue should be returned to Ontario families and tax- payers in the form of corre- sponding tax relief, as veri- fied by the auditor general," he said, adding the Progres- sive Conservatives' plan would be revenue neutral as a result. In the wake of the policy announcement, Premier Kathleen Wynne chal- lenged the plan, claiming it would cost Ontarians more and be less effective in re- ducing emissions long- term. "In recent days, the pre- mier's claims that our pro- posal to phase out their cap- and-trade program, and re- place it with a carbon pric- ing program, in line with what the Trudeau govern- ment is requiring and which would return all of the revenues to Ontarians, would cost more and would not be as effective in reduc- ing carbon emissions," said Arnott in a release sent Dec. 7. In response, while ad- dressing the legislature last week, Arnott pointed to an article in Maclean's Maga- zine by economist Trevor Tombe on Dec. 2. "In fact, the Maclean's ar- ticle demonstrated that the People's Guarantee will do the opposite. The study by economist Trevor Tombe? suggests our plan would in time leave Ontario house- holds better off than what the Liberals say, and reduce emissions more in Ontario, than under their cap-and- trade program," he said. In his article, Tombe re- futes the Liberals' claims that scrapping the current cap and trade program in fa- vour of a carbon pricing/tax alternative would cost On- tarians more and be less ef- fective. "Simply put: households would tend to see higher dis- posable incomes under the PC proposal, not lower as the premier claimed," Tombe added. He was a little more for- giving in his analysis of re- duced emissions, but still noted some concerns sur- rounding the government's claims. "The Premier also noted that the carbon tax plan will result in less emissions re- ductions than the cap-and- trade system. While not bla- tantly false like the claim about household costs, this statement is still somewhat misleading," said Tombe. "Overall, the carbon price should be our measure of stringency. And on this met- ric, the PC proposal is more stringent than the current system." According to the David Suzuki Foundation, howev- er, cap and trade does have its advantages as well. Whereas carbon pricing provides a level of certainty about the price, cap and trade offers more certainty in emission reductions tar- gets. The David Suzuki foundation doesn't lean one way or the other and sug- gests the devil lies in the de- tails regardless of which ap- proach is chosen. "Both cap-and-trade pro- grams and carbon taxes can work well as long as they are designed to provide a strong economic signal to switch to cleaner energy," writes the foundation on its website. In his Maclean's article, Tombe essentially agreed with that assessment, while urging voters to be aware of the politicking sure to arise as this issue grows into a central focus of next sum- mer's election. During his address to the house last week, Arnott also reiterated his party's com- mitment to protecting ground water and reducing pollution in the province's waterways. 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