Ontario PCs Do Away With Environmental Watchdog

After almost a quarter century, the office of Ontario's environmental commissioner is no more.Premier Doug Ford's government announced that those duties would be absorbed by the Auditor General's office. It's unclear whether the commissioner, Dianne Saxe, and her staff will lose their jobs.The move was announced in the Progressive Conservatives' Fall Economic Statement, released Thursday at Queen's Park."It will be up to the ... Auditor General now to staff up," Finance Minister Vic Fedeli told