July 17, 2019
Carbon pricing across Canada
Although economists favour carbon pricing as the most efficient way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the policy has taken an unpredictable path in Canada. With four constitutional challenges and...
July 17, 2019
Quebec’s political consensus over carbon price system
(This article has been translated into French.) Much has been written about Ontario’s and Alberta’s decisions in the past year to reverse course and eliminate their carbon pricing systems. Until...
July 8, 2019
The evolution of carbon pricing in the provinces
Although economists favour carbon pricing as the most effective and efficient way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the policy has taken an unpredictable path in Canada. It has been...
July 16, 2019
Most Canadians don’t want a province-first approach to climate change
The issue of climate change, and how best to address it, is one that activates a number of society’s underlying fault lines, be they ideological, regional or even generational....
July 15, 2019
How the commuter vs. polluter narrative could backfire on Alberta
With the election of Jason Kenney’s United Conservative Party in Alberta in April, the days of former premier Notley’s Climate Leadership Plan were numbered. I knew the plan well...
July 12, 2019
Saskatchewan’s long history of rejecting carbon pricing
For eight months of the year, I live in Ontario, and for the other four months I live in my home province of Saskatchewan. In Toronto, the weather is...
July 11, 2019
Lessons from British Columbia’s carbon tax
British Columbia’s carbon tax, adopted in 2008, was celebrated internationally as a textbook model of carbon taxation. The province’s even-handed coverage of fossil fuel consumption by both households and...
July 10, 2019
Ontario’s carbon price experience is a cautionary tale
Ontario is unique in the politics of carbon pricing in Canada: a carbon pricing champion transformed into a leading opponent. Some write off this reversal as a political deus...