In a post-summit briefing Wednesday at Queen’s Park, Canada’s ambassador to Washington and Premier Kathleen Wynne circled around it. For a time, global warming looked like the biggest issue of our time. But in California — the world’s seventh-largest economy with39 million people — cap and trade is a positive talking point. While PC Leader Patrick Brown professes to be pro-environment, he derides cap and trade as a cash grab. Like California and Quebec, Ontario has embraced a cap-and-trade system that attempts to put a price on polluters who emit the carbon that causes global warming.

Source: thestar February 16, 2017 09:56 UTC