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1. 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, ...

2. Minister McKenna wrong on relationship between carbon taxes and growth

   (screenshot of actual tweet) Recently, federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change Catherine McKenna took to twitter to criticize the Ontario government’s decision to scrap its cap and trade program. The first sentence in the ...

3. Federal and provincial tax hikes burdening Albertans

   Appeared in the Calgary Sun, October 12, 2016 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently announced that all provinces must soon adopt a price on carbon of $50 per tonne. The federal plan would likely require a further tax hike on top of the $30 per tonne ...

4. Federal and provincial tax hikes burdening Ontarians

   Appeared in the Toronto Sun, October 12, 2016 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently announced that all provinces must soon adopt a “price on carbon” of $50 per tonne or else face a carbon tax imposed by the federal government. This could mean yet another ...

5. Ontario climate change strategy—a Frankenstein monster

   Appeared in the Toronto Sun, August 27, 2016 A recent opinion column from a scholar at the left-leaning Brookings Institution in the United States observes (based on the vast laboratory that is California) that “cap-and-trade” is a flawed strategy for ...

6. Ontario’s climate action plan undermines case for cap and trade

   Appeared in the Toronto Sun, May 18, 2016 Proponents of carbon taxes and cap and trade schemes often defend their position on the grounds that simply attaching a “price” to carbon is the most economically efficient way to reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions ...

7. Carbon pricing, plus more regulation, equals bad news for Ontario’s economy

   An economics textbook will tell you that carbon pricing (through a carbon tax or a cap and trade scheme) is the most efficient way to reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHG). The principle at work is that is less economically damaging to ...