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1. A new twist on the carbon tax?

   The plan includes a “carbon price” between $20 per tonne and $50 per tonne on fuels. ...

2. Despite court ruling, Ottawa’s carbon tax remains fundamentally flawed

   The carbon tax will increase by $15 per tonne until it reaches $170 per tonne. ...

3. Carbon tax proponent misses mark—several times

   In reply to my last column on carbon taxes, Michael Bernstein from Canadians for Clean Prosperity argues that while the federal government’s carbon tax can be improved, it should not, contrary to my view, be rejected. His defence of the ...

4. Flawed federal carbon-pricing plan will hurt economy

   Last week the Trudeau government unveiled its updated (and long-awaited) climate change plan dubbed “A Healthy Environment and a Healthy Economy.” The plan includes 64 new measures and $15 billion in climate change-related spending, which ...

5. Higher federal carbon tax will imperil Canadian competitiveness

   Last week, in the midst of a global pandemic and deep recession, the Trudeau government unveiled its new plan to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Despite adamantly stating it had no plans to increase the carbon tax beyond the ...

6. Plastics ban one more blow to Alberta’s energy sector

   Investment in Canada’s oil and gas sector has declined by 35 per cent. ...

7. Getting political responsibility right in times of crises

   More often than not, politicians are given too much credit for both economic expansions (i.e. prosperity) as well as recessions. That’s not to say that policies don’t matter because they do. But the idea that a politician or government ...

8. Alberta Court of Appeal rejects carbon tax, protects provincial jurisdiction

   On Monday, in a precise and lucid judgment, a majority of the Alberta Court of Appeal found the federal carbon tax to be unconstitutional. Unlike the appeal courts in Saskatchewan and Ontario, which had found by 3-2 and 4-1 margins ...

9. The impact of the carbon tax on Canadian industry

   Last month, an Ecofiscal Commission report found that Canada must adopt a carbon price of $210 per tonne by 2030 to meet its Paris targets—assuming it relies on the carbon tax alone. The report estimates that this would mean a 40 cent per ...

10. Carbon leakage—the Whac-A-Mole effect

    There are many problems with Canada’s federal carbon tax plan, which will rise to $50 per tonne of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2022, including that a national carbon tax will inevitably be inequitable at the provincial level. Some ...