It’s outrageous: Doug Ford just announced that he will drop $30 million of taxpayers money on a pointless joint legal battle to stop cap-and-trade in Ontario. Cap-and-trade put limits on how much climate disrupting emissions a company can produce and forces them to pay for any more above that. It’s a super effective tactic at reducing climate disrupting greenhouse gas emissions all over 

Cap-and-trade targets the biggest climate polluters like Shell, Esso and PetroCanada and forces them to reduce their emissions -- or pay up. Now Ford is trashing Canada's climate targets and while taking precious tax dollars away from critical programs in Ontario. 

Ontario is Canada's largest province and what happens there affects the whole country. This lawsuit, though highly unlikely to win, could change other provinces' stances on climate change. Luckily, his government has already shown it's susceptible to public pressure. A huge backlash could put Ontario back on track for its climate goals -- while protecting valuable tax dollars for vulnerable Ontarians.

At the recent premiers meeting, Doug Ford announced that he would be joining with Saskatchewan in a lawsuit against the federal government who is mandating every province have a cap-and-trade system in place. None of the other provinces are fighting it because they know it’s a losing battle. 

SumOfUs has taken on politicians before for refusing to act on the climate. When President Trump announced that he was backing out of the Paris Climate Agreement, over 140,000 members like you called for CEOs from corporations like IBM and PepsiCo to step down from Trump’s business advisory council. And it worked. Because of you, many major corporations distanced themselves from Trump’s ill-advised climate policies.