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1. 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 ...

2. 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 ...

3. Trudeau government carbon tax plan rife with problems

   Appeared in the Vancouver Province, October 30, 2018 In case you hadn’t heard, the Trudeau government revealed last week how it would implement the federal “backstop” plan for provinces that (according to Ottawa) have inadequate carbon tax schemes. In ...

4. 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,” ...

5. Federal government’s carbon-pricing system violates basic tenets of efficient carbon pricing

   In a highly anticipated announcement, the federal government today revealed details of its carbon-pricing system, which will impose a federal carbon tax on provinces that have chosen to forego a provincial policy. The system violates ...

6. 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, ...

7. 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 ...

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. Nordhaus, the Nobel, Harper, economics and populism

   Trade is good for both countries, but not everyone in both countries benefits from trade. ...

10. The Magic Carbon Dividend Plan—yes, it’s too good to be true

    Appeared in the National Newswatch, October 4, 2018 Will households be better off under a carbon tax-and-dividend plan? A recent report from Canadians for Clean Prosperity, a pro-carbon pricing advocacy group, claims they will, based on an analysis by ...