Ontario’s last independent environment commissioner will pack up her Bay Street office on Friday and leave to start a small business focused on climate advocacy.
Forced out along with two other watchdogs by Doug Ford’s spending cuts, Dianne Saxe is not leaving quietly. She was in the provincial legislature Wednesday to deliver a final report about the state of energy conservation and climate policies in Ontario. She was blunt: “very frightening” and “very inadequate.”
In response to questions from reporters, Saxe said that she was unable to find "common ground” with Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk on “climate science and climate policy” to continue on in her role. She added that she believes that Lysyk will not be "an advocate for the environment" the way she was.
Lysyk told National Observer that “it was probably for the best” that Saxe did not continue as environmental commissioner in the auditor general’s office because they are not “an advocacy office” and “can’t be seen as taking sides on government policy.”
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