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1. 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. ...

2. 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 ...

3. Ottawa’s Clean Fuel Standard—overkill in your tank

   Appeared in the Financial Post, November 18, 2020 How clean is your bathroom? It could be cleaner, couldn’t it? Even if you think it’s very clean, a team of microbiologists with microscopes and laboratory probes could probably find a lot of nasty stuff. ...

4. IPCC uses worst-case scenario to exaggerate emission forecasts

   Since the 1980s, ranges of projection were systematically too high. ...

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. 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 ...

7. Canada’s carbon pricing—bait and switch

   Appeared in The Hill, May 14, 2017 Canada is being touted as a potential “international beacon” of greenhouse gas (“carbon”) pricing, as several provinces, and the Canadian federal government, have implemented it in several forms. In The Hill recently, ...