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1. 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. ...

2. 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 ...

3. 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 ...

4. Our eighth-best carbon policies

   Economists talk about “first-best” policies, by which—we’re a little illiterate—we actually mean “best” policies. With less offence to the language, we go on to “second-best” policies, “third-best” policies and so on, for as many numbers ...

5. Report swings and misses at carbon price 'myths'

   In a previous blog post, I explored whether the “10 Myths about carbon pricing in Canada” recently published by the Ecofiscal Commission were really all that mythical. The previous post looked at myths one to five. This post will look at ...

6. Eco-group presents a few strawmen and two red herrings

   The Ecofiscal Commission, which pushes pollution pricing, recently released a report called “ 10 myths about carbon pricing in Canada,” which fails to live up to its title. For example, it claims that some people propagate the myth that ...

7. One good thing about the carbon tax

   Introducing a new tax is an unconventional way to kick off an election campaign. Perhaps understanding that, the federal government declines to call its new carbon tax a tax. It calls it a fuel charge instead. Or more precisely, a “ fuel ...

8. Concerns remain as federal carbon tax takes effect

   The federal government’s carbon tax comes into effect today in Ontario, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and New Brunswick, the four provinces that refused to impose their own emissions pricing. The federal carbon tax will kick in at $20 a tonne ...

9. Canada’s climate policy mess is hardly ‘cost-effective’

   In another example of carbon-pricing confusion, the C.D. Howe Institute recently published a report, which describes the federal carbon-pricing plan as “cost-effective”—while at the same time, noting evidence that the overall policy mix ...

10. Will the CAI solve our climate-policy problem and end eco-micro-management?

    The CAI. Not the CIA, which may or may not be working on our climate-policy problem, who knows? It works on lots of things so it may be working on that, too. Rather, the CAI is the Trudeau government’s new “Climate Action Incentive,” ...