Making The Environmental Grade: Ontario Leads While Canada Lags

A recent report published by the Conference Board of Canada has found Ontario to be the top environmental performing province in the country based on 9 criteria.

But in the larger scheme of things, the same report found that the environmental record of Canada as a whole is woefully lacking compared to that of its peers.

The report, released last month, ranked the individual provinces alongside Canada and several other "peer" countries across nine environmental indicators. These indicators were meant to illustrate a given jurisdiction's environmental performance on air pollution (nitrogen oxide emissions; sulphur oxides emissions; VOC emissions; and particulate matter emissions), waste (waste generation), freshwater management (wastewater treatment and water withdrawals), and climate change (GHG emissions; low-emitting electricity production; and energy intensity).