06-21-2018, 10:12 AM
(06-21-2018, 09:09 AM)danbrotherston Wrote:(06-21-2018, 08:28 AM)Viewfromthe42 Wrote: Everyone had Ford's entire candidacy as a warning. He promised time and again to cancel Cap and Trade AND the programs it funded. Green ON was one of them. I'm not going to give credit to consumers for not associating the two, but certainly if you are in the industry supplying these things and you don't know where they come from, that's more due diligence required.
Did he promise to cancel those programs? I don't recall hearing that. Most of what I remember from his campaign was a lack of detail on how he would pay for the tax cuts he promised.
Certainly we assumed he would be cutting those programs, although every time I asked a Ford voter about them, they swore up and down the wall there wouldn't be cuts.
I'm not bitter.
I'm pretty sure I remember him making that promise. We definitely heard that when he would lower the price of gas (gas tax?) by 10 cents per litre, that the programs it funded would still receive the money they normally would, out of general revenue. Cap and Trade monies were VERY explicitly tied to only certain projects, including energy efficiencies, cycling infrastructure, and other things many on this forum seem to appreciate. Cut the program that funds them, and yes, you cut them, too.