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1. Carbon taxes take a beating—north and south

   Appeared in the Calgary Sun, November 21, 2018 One hopes that Premier Notley and Prime Minister Trudeau have been watching events south of the border, where carbon taxes and wind/solar power advocates have taken major hits, and it’s clear Canada will go ...

2. To adapt to climate change, end supply management

   How’s that? For economists, there are many good reasons to end supply management, which boils down to political determination of how much milk, chicken, eggs, cheese and now even maple syrup Canada produces. But a new working paper from ...

3. The carbon taxman is coming

   Appeared in the Calgary Sun, October 31, 2018 Last Week, Prime Minister Trudeau continued his fight against climate change with his escalating “pan-Canadian” carbon price, which will kick in at $20 per tonne in 2019 and rise by $10 per year to reach $50 ...

4. Carbon taxes—a stunning bite looms

   The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently released a new “special report,” which of course supports the contention that warming above 1.5 degrees Celsius is rapidly approaching (IPCC estimates that tipping ...

5. 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, ...

6. The IPCC warns of dire consequences (again)

   Once again, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has issued a report which asserts that if the Earth’s climate warms beyond 1.5 degrees Celsius, well, the consequences will be dire. And at two degrees the impacts will ...

7. Federal Reforms and the Empty Shell of Environmental Assessment

   In February 2018, Catherine McKenna, the federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change, introduced Bill C-69, the Trudeau government’s proposal for reform to federal environmental assessment law. Bill C-69 will, among other things, replace the ...

8. Americans have made hurricane destruction worse (but not with carbon emissions)

   Appeared in the Financial Post, October 4, 2017 Amidst the epic devastation of this season’s hurricanes, many commentators have demanded a renewed discussion of the hazards of climate change. There was an unseemly opportunism in doing this while the ...

9. A new climate horror story rears its head

   Appeared in the Vancouver Province, August 9, 2017 Just in time for summer, when every heatwave and forest fire will be sold as evidence of a “climate crisis” and Mayor Gregor Robertson is panicked about “extreme weather events,” we have a new panic ...

10. It’s time for Canada to reassess its climate policy

    The federal government recently unveiled its new national carbon pricing scheme, calling it a “backstop.” Under the backstop plan, provinces are given until 2018 to create their own carbon pricing system or Ottawa will impose its own. ...