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1. Here’s what the Trudeau government won’t tell you about its $170 carbon tax

   Cutting emissions by 25 per cent would impose a permanent cost of about 2.0 per cent of GDP. ...

2. Conservative climate plan wildly oversimplifies and overreaches

   If you think we need to reduce CO2 emissions, use a single targeted policy to reduce CO2 emissions. ...

3. Estimated Impacts of a $170 Carbon Tax in Canada

   The federal government’s Healthy Environment and Healthy Economy (HEHE) plan includes a $170-per-tonne carbon tax to be phased in over 9 years. Unlike previous cases when the government proposed major policy changes, it has not released any quantitative ...

4. Canada’s carbon tax hampers key industries, may spur ‘carbon leakage’

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald, August 22, 2019 With Canada’s carbon tax set to reach $50 per tonne in 2022, many Canadian industries are bracing for potential cost increases. Not only will they pay the tax on their own emissions, but they’ll pay higher ...

5. The Impact of the Federal Carbon Tax on the Competitiveness of Canadian Industries

   With Canada’s federal carbon tax set to reach $50 per tonne in 2022 it is often argued that Canadian businesses will become less competitive as a result of higher energy costs. For this reason, firms may relocate to countries where climate-change policies ...

6. Something is extreme—but it’s not the weather

   Prime Minister Trudeau said the federal carbon tax will help protect Canadians from extreme weather. ...

7. 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 ...

8. Trudeau government carbon-pricing plan not in line with Nobel Prize-winning analysis

   Appeared in the National Post, October 16, 2018 Earlier this month, Yale economist William Nordhaus won the Nobel Prize in Economics (alongside New York University economist Paul Romer) for developing a class of economic tools called “Integrated ...

9. Canada’s phony debate about carbon taxes

   Appeared in Maclean's, February 23, 2018 In the Ontario PC leadership race, all four candidates hoping to replace Patrick Brown as leader oppose carbon taxes, a centrepiece of Brown’s Tory platform. The federal Conservative Party also opposes carbon ...

10. Economists Olewiler and Kesselman get the economics wrong on B.C.’s carbon tax

    In recent Vancouver Sun column, Simon Fraser University economists Nancy Olewiler and Rhys Kesselman dispute an earlier column by three Fraser Institute economists (Kenneth Green, Elmira Aliakbari and Ashley Stedman), which criticized ...