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1. Climate change—to pay, or not to pay?

   Appeared in the Edmonton Sun, December 4, 2019 With the holidays fast approaching, you may have missed the latest (and final) report from Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission, a “group of experienced, policy-minded economists,” which admitted that all those ...

2. Case for aggressive ‘climate’ policies much weaker than we’ve been led to believe

   Some computer models predict catastrophic results, other projections are much more benign. ...

3. Policymakers should heed lessons from Canada's carbon tax experiment

   Appeared in The Hill, January 30, 2019 Last week, many prominent economists in the United States penned an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal recommending a national carbon tax as the most cost-effective way to combat climate change. Yet their call ...

4. Carbon taxes take a beating—north and south

   Appeared in the Calgary Sun, November 21, 2018 One hopes that Premier Notley and Prime Minister Trudeau have been watching events south of the border, where carbon taxes and wind/solar power advocates have taken major hits, and it’s clear Canada will go ...

5. Carbon taxes—a stunning bite looms

   The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently released a new “special report,” which of course supports the contention that warming above 1.5 degrees Celsius is rapidly approaching (IPCC estimates that tipping ...

6. Minister McKenna wrong on carbon pricing and growth in Ontario

   Appeared in the Ottawa Sun, October 24, 2018 This week, the Trudeau government announced plans to impose a carbon tax on provinces (including Ontario) whose governments are not currently planning to implement a tax themselves. Prior to the announcement, ...