Commentary City of Ottawa politicians have done us all a great favour with their climate change plan. It is not that, at 0.014 percent of world emissions, anything Ottawa does will make any difference to world climate, of course. It is that, by enabling a plan forecast to cost over $57 billion, Ottawa has set itself up to be a cautionary tale of what inevitably happens when fiscal policy and hard-nosed science and engineering are subordinated to ideology and special-interest pressure politics. For that is exactly what Ottawa’s leaders have done. To appease loud, uninformed activists, the city has brought in a hopelessly naive strategy that is impossible to successfully implement but will cause great financial pain to residents and businesses of the region for no environmental benefit. As if that wasn’t bad enough, the City of Ottawa’s climate policies will contribute to a growing ecological and humanitarian disaster—the abhorrent …