Ford promised that cancelling cap-and-trade would be his first act
“upon the swearing in of my new cabinet, at the top of our agenda the very first item will be to pass an order to cancel the Liberal cap-and-trade carbon tax.”
Doug Ford, · Premier-designate news conference, Toronto
What happened · Jul 3, 2018
The cap-and-trade regulation was revoked on July 3, 2018, and Bill 4, the Cap and Trade Cancellation Act, 2018, received royal assent on October 31, 2018.
On July 3, 2018, four days after the cabinet was sworn in, Ford announced that the cap-and-trade regulation had been revoked and that programs funded by it, including the Green Ontario Fund, would be wound down. Environment Minister Rod Phillips introduced Bill 4 on July 25, 2018, and it received royal assent on October 31, 2018. With no provincial carbon price left, the federal fuel charge applied in Ontario from April 1, 2019.