The Progressive Conservative government announced last fall
that it was eliminating the office of the environmental commissioner and
merging its functions with the auditor general. In delivering a report
on energy conservation, Dianne Saxe said Ontario is heading in the wrong
direction on the environment.

“At a time when climate damage is
accelerating, Ontario is turning away from the things that we know
work,” she said, describing the government’s climate policy as “very
inadequate, very frightening.”

“On the big things that will reduce
our climate pollution, allow Canada to fulfil its role under the Paris
Agreement and show the poorer countries of the world that are suffering
the greater damage that we are going to do our part, we are causing
great damage.”