Tracy Snoddon – How Should Ottawa Distribute its Carbon Pricing Revenues?
From: Tracy Snoddon To: Catherine McKenna, Minister of Environment and Climate Change Date: October 19, 2018 Re: How Should Ottawa Distribute its Carbon Pricing Revenues? Ottawa should rebate revenues from its carbon pricing backstop directly to citizens in non-compliant provinces that reject its plan. This option for returning backstop cash ensures government accountability is fair […] The Rocky Road to Canada-wide Carbon Pricing
Ottawa should rebate revenues from its carbon pricing backstop directly to citizens in non-compliant provinces that reject its plan, according to a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute. In “The Rocky Road to Canada-wide Carbon Pricing,” author Tracy Snoddon argues that this option for returning backstop cash ensures government accountability is fair and flexible. Bill Robson on BNN – The economics of carbon pricing
A C.D. Howe report suggests that Ottawa should push ahead with its plans for a carbon tax and distribute the revenues back to residents despite a growing number of provinces vowing to fight the tax. Bill Robson, president and CEO of the C.D. Howe Institute, joins BNN Bloomberg to explain.
Grant Bishop – Federal carbon-pricing backstop is new constitutional territory
From: Grant Bishop To: The Honourable Jody Wilson-Raybould, Attorney General of Canada, and the Honourable Catherine McKenna, Minister of Environment Date: October 17, 2018 Re: Federal carbon-pricing backstop is new constitutional territory Certain commentators have minimized the merits of constitutional challenges raised by provinces to the federal government’s carbon pricing backstop. However, the federal backstop represents new and far-reaching […] Grant Sprague – With no change in the decision-making process, how will Bill C-69 result in change?
From: Grant Sprague To: Concerned Canadians Date: October 12, 2018 Re: With no change in the decision-making process, how will Bill C-69 result in change? The fundamental construct of Bill C-69, which replaces the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act with a new Impact Assessment Act, provides for the same decision-making process found in the current act. Namely, decisions will be […] Andrew Roman – The Trans Mountain Appeal: delay is denial
From: Andrew Roman To: Concerned Canadians Date: October 10, 2018 Re: The Trans Mountain Appeal: delay is denial The Supreme Court of Canada has held that the Crown’s duty of consultation does not give aboriginal peoples a legal right to veto project approvals. Yet the Federal Court of Appeal ’s Trans Mountain decision in August has created an effective […] Grant Bishop – Let’s Rethink Bill C-69
From: Grant Bishop To: The Hon. Catherine McKenna, Minister of Environment and Climate Change Canada Date: September 24, 2018 Re: Let’s rethink Bill C-69 Backlash has surged to the proposed revisions to rules around federal environmental impact assessments and the revamp of the National Energy Board and the bill (C-69) arrives tomorrow at the Senate for first reading. While […] Andrew Roman – Appealing the Trans Mountain Decision
From: Andrew Roman To: The Honourable Jody Wilson-Raybould, Minister of Justice and Attorney General, and The Honourable Amarjeet Sohi, Minister of Natural Resources. Date: September 20, 2018 Re: Appealing the Trans Mountain Decision Following the Federal Court of Appeal’s August 30th decision quashing approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, the federal government is rightly […] Bill Robson on BNN Bloomberg – Weak business investment sours Canada’s economic outlook
Bill Robson, president and CEO of the C.D. Howe Institute, discusses Canadian competitiveness and the reasons why business investment in the country is lagging compared to the U.S.
Grant Bishop – TransMountain: It Can Still Fly
To: The Hon. Amarjeet Sohi, Minister of Natural Resources, The Hon. Jody Wilson-Raybould, Minister of Justice. From: Grant Bishop Date: August 31, 2018 Re: Moving forward on TransMountain Yesterday’s decision by the Federal Court of Appeal to quash the federal cabinet’s approval of the TransMountain pipeline expansion exacerbates the uncertainty facing investment in major energy […] Chi Man Yip – What Do We Learn From British Columbia’s Carbon Tax?
From: Chi Man Yip To: Hon. George Heyman, British Columbia Minister of Environment and Climate Change Strategy CC: Ministers of Environment and Energy across Canada Re: What do we learn from British Columbia’s carbon tax? Date: August 28, 2018 British Columbia’s carbon tax turned 10 last month. Over that time, the tax, based on greenhouse gas emissions […] Peter MacKay – Re-energizing Energy East
To: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau From: Peter MacKay Date: August 11, 2018 Re: Re-energizing Energy East Lost in the summer haze of the sweltering heat, is one of the largest nation-building job opportunity seen in a generation. The aborted Energy East pipeline project would have been a massive game changer, not just for the Atlantic provinces, but for […]