When it comes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, Ontario isn't doing as well as it hoped.
In fact, the province's environmental commissioner says the government will not meet its carbon emission reduction target set for the year 2020.
That's because most of the impact from Ontario's climate change action plan won't be felt until after that, but at the same time, the climate is changing.
Commissioner Dianne Saxe says "Ontario is warming up faster than the world average. We've had more than 18 additional days of growing season, just in the last 30 years. In terms of our emissions on a per capita basis, we're still pretty big emitters but we did meet our 2014 target which was for 6-percent below 1990."
Saxe told AM800's 'The Afternoon News' that despite its shortcomings, Ontario has been a climate change leader.
She points to the shutdown of all of the province's coal-fired power plants as a reason there were no smog days last year for the first time since records began.
In a report released Tuesday, Saxe called Ontario's climate change action plan a "high-level, aspirational document" with not enough details to allow her office to properly evaluate its emission reduction claims.