felixculpas
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Well it’s getting more clearer everyday....“Of course there was the $14,000 rebate program for millionaires who were going to get that rebate to buy a Tesla or an electric vehicle. Those are the types of programs that were killed as a result of the cap-and-trade program,” said Smith.
PCs to end York strike and kill cap-and-trade law during rare summer session of the Ontario legislature | The Star
Damn, that kind of says it all. They're going to kill it as fast as they can. If there's money left in the coffers it will probably be repurposed elsewhere.
According to CBC, all that will happen today is the private ballot election of a speaker and the real work begins next Monday and will sit for at least a couple of weeks. There will be a lot of opposition but I'm sure that will fall on deaf ears.
How a party is even allowed to say they are doing things "for the people" when there's no possible chance of "the people" having signed off on each and every one of his mandates is ludicrous in and of itself. Just because someone voted for you based on a few of your mandates doesn't mean they supported all the others. So don't go around claiming everything you are doing is supported by "the people". That's ethically wrong in my books. Oh, right. We're talking about politicians. Disregard.
They may kill cap and trade fast (upcoming weeks) but their statement where the PC's said "We will be honouring all contracts as of June 29" was communicated to a number of people. We don't know definitively what "contracts" means, but most I think feel it's reasonable that it refers to our order agreement with Tesla.
The entire cap and trade is what, $1.4B nationally or something to that effect with Ontario's portion at $420M? Many Ontario programs were a part of that. They may "divert" funds from programs that are easier to do so with but that doesn't necessarily mean EHVIP is killed off this month. It will be a lot of work winding all affected programs down I would imagine.