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1. Ottawa handing out electric car subsidies

   It’s long been known that government subsidies drive electric vehicle (EV) sales much more than their price or performance, whether it was the $14,000 subsidy in Ontario (struck down by Premier Doug Ford), the $5,000 subsidy offered to ...

2. Energy industry losing billions while Ottawa twiddles its thumbs

   Appeared in the Calgary Sun, May 1, 2019 Way back in 2016, researchers at the Fraser Institute first set out to measure the costs Canada incurs due to insufficient pipeline capacity and access to more lucrative foreign markets. They found that higher ...

3. Carbon pricing in Canada—myth and reality

   Appeared in the Edmonton Sun, April 24, 2019 In recent eco-news, Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission, a self-appointed group that pushes pollution-pricing (believing that such mechanisms are superior to regulatory approaches), recently released a report called ...

4. Electricity consumers (you and me) pay for misguided policies that distort energy markets

   As researchers at the Fraser Institute have shown, government “green” policies in Ontario lead to significantly higher power prices. Specifically, thanks to the Green Energy Act and poor energy governance, Ontario ratepayers got walloped: ...

5. Subsidy-powered vehicles get a tune-up from Ottawa

   Appeared in the Calgary Sun, April 17, 2019 With the election behind us, here’s something completely different. It’s long been known that government subsidies drive electric vehicle sales—not their price or performance. Whether it was the $14,000 subsidy ...

6. About those 9,000 jobs, Mr. Prime Minister

   As virtually everyone knows by now, Prime Minister Trudeau is in hot water for attempting to influence attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould in the SNC-Lavalin affair. The prime minister’s rational (and that of former principal secretary ...

7. Canada's growing regulatory morass

   Writing in the Financial Post, Geoffrey Morgan highlights a stark dichotomy between Canada and the United States in getting pipelines approved: “As Canada dithered, America signed off on 3 oil pipelines to carry 2.4 million barrels a day” ...

8. Red tape strangling Canada’s oil and gas industry

   Appeared in the Edmonton Sun, April 10, 2019 A new report by Ernst & Young, commissioned for the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association, should serve as a wake-up call for Alberta. According to the report, the last several years have seen an increase in ...

9. Canada’s mining sector in jeopardy

   As the Fraser Institute’s annual survey of mining company executives (2018) shows, investors think Canadian jurisdictions are attractive for mining investment. Four jurisdictions (Saskatchewan, Quebec, Yukon and the Northwest Territories) ...

10. Trump's executive order may help Canadian oil industry

    President Trump granted permission to TransCanada Corporation to construct pipeline capacity at the border. ...