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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Compared with other places that have debated carbon pricing globally, New Brunswick is unusual. The province is small: in 2017, the province’s total carbon pollution was less than the...
(This article has been translated into French.) Canadian federal and provincial governments are deeply divided over carbon pricing. The current state of affairs is a far cry from that...
Sitôt élu le 16 avril dernier, le nouveau premier ministre de l’Alberta Jason Kenney a directement interpellé les Québécois en affirmant que l’Alberta et le Québec partageaient « des valeurs...
