Doug Ford’s $30 million carbon tax fight is money down the drain but it keeps his brand afloat
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Ford's provincial government has budgeted millions to overturn the carbon law enacted by the federal government but the premier's "axe the tax" sloganeering was always a pure populist play, Martin Regg Cohn writes.