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The NDP’s carbon tax increase puts B.C. on a very different path
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Michelle Siu It was clear that when the NDP took power in British Columbia, a significant change in direction was coming for the province. That shift started to come into clearer...
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What if Ontario scrapped cap-and-trade for a carbon tax?
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne listens to questions from the media during an announcement which outlined a cap and trade deal with Quebec aimed at curbing green house emissions, in Toronto on Monday,...
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Kathleen Wynne’s attack on the Ontario PC carbon tax plan misleads voters
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young Carbon taxes versus cap-and-trade will be a critical issue in the 2018 Ontario election. The opposition Conservatives propose to scrap the current cap-and-trade system...
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Alberta’s strong carbon policy is key to getting pipelines built
Protesters hold up signs as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks at a public town hall in Nanaimo, B.C., on Friday, February 2, 2018.(Jonathan Hayward/CP) The only reason Alberta has any hope of...
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At the Manning Conference, the conservative climate plan is a scrap of paper
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer speaks at the Manning Networking Conference in Ottawa on Friday, Feb. 9, 2018. (Justin Tang/CP) The conservative movement’s official list of carbon-reduction...
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Scrapping carbon taxes leaves a gaping hole in the Ontario PC platform
Supporters gather to hear Ontario PC Leadership candidate Doug Ford address a campaign rally in Toronto on Saturday, February 3, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young Mike Moffatt is the director of...
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The conservative case for a carbon tax in Canada
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer speaks at the Manning Networking Conference in Ottawa on Friday, Feb. 9, 2018. (Justin Tang/CP) Ben Woodfinden is a former Manning Centre intern and a writer. He holds...
View ArticleFor world governments, climate leadership is a matter of morality
Within the next 18 months, there will be at least four provincial and federal elections in Canada. Working backward from the national contest in October 2019, Alberta will be sending voters to the...
View ArticleSaskatchewan is launching a court reference that just might kill the carbon tax
Long before Doug Ford gets a chance as premier to wage his scrap-the-tax war against Ontario’s cap-and-trade system, and Justin Trudeau’s carbon price program; before Alberta’s Jason Kenney can win the...
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Both the NDP and UCP support a price on carbon. It’s time we admit it.
Trevor Tombe is an associate professor of economics at the University of Calgary, and a research fellow at the School of Public Policy “Jason Kenney says he supports a carbon tax” — a headline many...
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The Ontario PCs got their majority. Have they also been cursed?
Doug Ford speaks during a campaign rally in Mississauga, Ont., on Wednesday, May 16, 2018. (Cole Burston/Bloomberg/Getty Images) In moments like this, it is important, I think, to recount the tale of...
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If Justin Trudeau loses, it will be because of Andrew Scheer’s secret weapon
“What’s Hamish Marshall’s title again?” I asked a Conservative MP over after-work beverages in Ottawa in late July. “National campaign manager.” “And when does he start campaigning?” “He’s campaigning...
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Election 2019: The battle lines are already drawn
The ways in which politicians signal which issues they plan to run on are pretty much tried and true. Deliver a speech, release a platform document, coin a slogan. So credit Andrew Scheer for mixing it...
View ArticleJustin Trudeau on a raft of rising economic tensions between the feds and the...
As he prepares for a meeting with the premiers later this fall on economic issues, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in an hourlong Maclean’s Live interview that he’ll be pressing for what he called...
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Justin Trudeau vs. the anti-carbon tax Avengers
I’m as surprised as you are that Brian Pallister just became the most interesting man in Canadian federalism. The Progressive Conservative premier of Manitoba, impossibly tall and lanky, likes to talk...
View ArticleThe real reason for Doug Ford and Jason Kenney’s anti-carbon tax crusade
Sitting at the back of Jason Kenney and Doug Ford’s “Scrap the Carbon Tax” rally, it became clear how this is all going to work. It’s the Friday night before the long weekend and a windowless...
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Doug Ford, Jason Kenney and the end of the world
Ontario Premier Doug Ford flew into Calgary last week to stand with future Alberta premier Jason Kenney to rally against Justin Trudeau and current Alberta Premier Rachel Notley. It was a typically...
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On carbon taxes, Liberals should take Stephen Harper’s advice
If you drew up a list of eminent Canadians Justin Trudeau will never listen to, Stephen Harper would surely take the top 10 spots. The current prime minister disagrees with his predecessor so much, he...
View ArticleHey, who wants a carbon-tax rebate! Trudeau’s Liberals prepare to find out.
It was the kind of day where everyone was so nervous that if you stood too close to a politician, they’d start to recite talking points. I said hello to a Liberal staffer and he started comparing the...
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Will household rebates really make Canadians warm to a carbon price?
Nic Rivers is Canada Research Chair in Climate and Energy Policy at the University of Ottawa. Leah C. Stokes is an assistant professor of political science at the University of California, Santa...
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Canada’s new large-emitter pricing system might defeat the carbon tax’s own...
Blake Shaffer is a Fulbright Scholar at Stanford University and energy policy fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute. He formerly advised the Alberta government on its large emitter climate policy. On Oct....
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A carbon tax? Just try them.
Scott Moe had been the premier of Saskatchewan for all of a week when he ran into Jason Kenney at the Manning Networking Conference in February of this year, at a downtown Ottawa convention centre. The...
View ArticleWhy Andrew Scheer is spouting nonsense about GM
You can make a reasonable-sounding political argument that Liberals in Ottawa and Toronto are to blame for General Motors’ announcement on Monday that it is closing its plant in Oshawa. Prime Minister...
View ArticleNew taxes, wage hikes and more: 49 new laws across Canada in 2019
Some changes are tiny and bureaucratic. Others will fundamentally change the country. The federal and provincial governments have announced numerous new rules for 2019. Most federal, provincial and...
View ArticleWhy a carbon tax won’t cause a recession
Mark Cameron is Executive Director and Michael Bernstein is Senior Vice-President of Canadians for Clean Prosperity. Ontario Premier Doug Ford chose a luncheon at the Economic Club of Canada to make...
View Article10 GIFs that debunk myths about carbon pricing in Canada
This week, Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission released a new report, “Ten Myths about Carbon Pricing in Canada,” because, in the words’ of Dale Beugin, the commission’s executive director, “It’s time to cut...
View ArticleJason Kenney’s plan for more climate change
Alberta Politics Insider is a morning newsletter on the provincial campaign, with news and exclusive analysis written by Maclean’s Alberta correspondent. To get it emailed to you every Monday to...
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Conservative politicians fill up their gas-guzzlers
The federal carbon tax came into effect today for four Canadian provinces. The day before the Liberals’ tax on fossil fuels became a reality, Conservative politicians in Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan...
View ArticleWhy Kenney hasn’t dumped his latest candidate with a record of intolerance
Alberta Politics Insider is a morning newsletter on the provincial campaign, with news and exclusive analysis written by Maclean’s Alberta correspondent. To get it emailed to you every Monday to...
View ArticleCanada’s climate change sideshow
Though there is certainly plenty of competition in the category, I still think the “debate” over climate change—you’ll note my sarcastic quotation marks—is perhaps the stupidest element of Canadian...
View ArticleOntarians don’t support Doug Ford’s anti-carbon tax campaign
Mark Cameron is executive director and Michael Bernstein is senior vice-president of Canadians for Clean Prosperity. The Ontario government has been slow to say exactly what it is for when it comes to...
View ArticleIs it time for a strategic retreat from carbon pricing?
Max Fawcett worked in the Alberta government’s climate change office between 2017 and 2019. He is the former editor of Alberta Oil and Vancouver magazines. It’s been a tough year for those who believe...
View ArticleBill McKibben on how we might avert climate change suicide
Thirty years ago, Bill McKibben wrote the first book on climate change for general readers, The End of Nature; it didn’t save the world, but McKibben hasn’t stopped trying. The Vermont-based author and...
View ArticleEarth to Trudeau: lead by example
Justin Trudeau took to the water this week to celebrate Earth Day, surfing with his family in Tofino on Canada’s far left coast. The waves were part of a three-day B.C. Easter break for the Prime...
View ArticleIt’s time for Andrew Scheer to get serious
There are many lines of attack open to Andrew Scheer as he seeks to replace Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister in October. Scheer can say that Trudeau is an incompetent tax-and-spend Liberal, a...
View ArticleAndrew Scheer’s cold, hard climate change calculus
This may put me offside with some of my learned columnist colleagues, but I’m not convinced Andrew Scheer has to do anything more on the issue of climate change than say, “It is bad, and we’ll find a...
View ArticleCarbon tax ruling is a modest win for Trudeau—but after a string of losses,...
Let’s recap the last six months for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. He became landed in the middle of a tug-of-war between China and United States over Huawei, prompting the vise of Chinese pressure...
View ArticleScheer sets a date for his ‘real plan’ on climate change
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer released a video message today declaring “Let the countdown begin!” to the release of his party’s long-awaited environment policy on June 19. “This is a real plan that...
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The climate crisis: These are Canada’s worst-case scenarios
This article is part of a special climate change issue in advance of the federal election. This collection of stories offers a comprehensive look at where Canada currently stands, what could be done...
View ArticleThe Tory premier who plays nice and doesn’t sound very blue
In April, Prince Edward Island became the fifth straight province to reject its Liberal or NDP government in favour of a more right-leaning party. But anybody expecting Progressive Conservative Leader...
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