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  1. The high cost of getting climate policy wrong

    The Internet is abuzz over a recent report by the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) that shines some light on the potential impact of the federal carbon tax plan on Canada’s economy. Specifically, the report shows that the carbon price ...

  2. Premier Notley and pipelines—better late than never

    One must give credit where credit is due, and Alberta Premier Rachel Notley’s evolution on pipelines is due some credit. She fired a warning shot with the short-lived British Columbia wine embargo, but is unlimbering some far heavier ...

  3. Mining investors dramatically downgrade Manitoba in annual survey

    Appeared in the Winnipeg Sun, March 4, 2018 Manitoba is no longer a top-ranked jurisdiction for mining investment, and government policy uncertainty is largely to blame, according to the Fraser Institute’s annual survey of mining companies. Every year the ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. Ontario PC candidates should offer real tax reform—not bumper sticker slogans

    Appeared in the Toronto Sun, February 21, 2018 In the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership race, many have asked whether the party should continue to embrace the carbon tax at the heart of former leader Patrick Brown’s “People’s Guarantee. ...

  6. GST revenues from carbon-pricing—likely another tax grab

    This week, as Canadians were sliding into their holiday mindset, the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) released a report estimating the GST revenues collected by the federal government through existing carbon-pricing schemes in four ...

  7. Alberta’s carbon policies damage province’s competitiveness

    Appeared in the Edmonton Sun, December 15, 2017 The Notley government recently announced new regulations aimed at providing emission-cutting incentives for industry. The so-called Carbon Competitiveness Incentives will begin in January and apply to ...

  8. Canada’s Climate Action Plans: Are They Cost-effective?

    Four provinces in Canada (Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario, and Quebec) have promulgated “action plans” to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. These plans have several broad components. There is a carbon pricing component; there are assortments of energy ...

  9. Carbon tax advocates flip-flop on revenue neutrality

    For many years, advocates of carbon taxes have acknowledged the necessity of “revenue neutrality” as a means of mitigating the economic damages such tax measures cause to households and the economy. In normal economic parlance, “revenue ...

  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 ...