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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 ...
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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,” ...
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William Watson: Among the ecofiscalists
My friend and McGill colleague Chris Ragan is also the founder and current chair of Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission, a foundation-supported group of prominent Canadian economists and others who have given themselves the mission of selling ...
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The hypocrisy of saving the planet from 30,000 feet
Mercifully, the Leap Manifesto, at 1,437 words, is only 1/27 the length of its (for now) more famous anti-capitalist predecessor, the Communist Manifesto. Even so, it has generated lots of comment, especially for its goal of a “100 per ...