Doug Ford's Climate Policy Is 'Very Frightening,' Watchdog Says

The environmental commissioner will be out of a job next week after the government eliminates her office.

FRANK GUNN/CANADIAN PRESS Environmental Commissioner of Ontario Dianne Saxe releases a report at the Ontario legislature in Toronto on Jan. 30, 2018.

TORONTO — Ontario's environmental commissioner issued dire warnings Wednesday about the "frightening'' state of climate policy in the province as she delivered her office's last report.

The Progressive Conservative government announced last fall that it was eliminating the office of the environmental commissioner and merging its functions with the auditor general. In delivering a report on energy conservation, Dianne Saxe said Ontario is heading in the wrong direction on the environment.

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