Ross McKitrick, Abdulrahman Khogali and Elmira Aliakbari “Brownfields,” or building sites contaminated by past users, need to undergo some level of remediation prior to their redevelopment. Ontario’s brownfield remediation rules underwent a major revision in 2011. The new rules are …
Saskatchewan Megaprojects in the 1980s: the Ugly, the Bad, and the Good
Ross McKitrick , September 2016 Canada has had a troubled history of governments pursuing megaprojects that entail large losses of taxpayer money, leading politicians later to bemoan the fact that the project should never have been undertaken. Would better advance …
Ontario electricity has never been cheaper, but bills have never been higher
Ross McKitrick August 8, 2016 The more the wind blows, the bigger the losses and the higher the hit to consumers. You may be surprised to learn that electricity is now cheaper to generate in Ontario than it has been …
American Job Losses and NAFTA
Decades of steady trade liberalization have served Canada’s economic development. As the Montreal Economic Institute’s Mathieu Bédard noted recently in FP Comment (“Trump’s anti-NAFTA myths spread north,” July 14), the NAFTA years have seen consistent increases in productivity and output …
Will Saudi Ceasefire in Oil War Offer Price Relief
Canadian energy producers have been dealing with a triple whammy of low oil prices, unfavourable policy changes and the Fort McMurray wildfire. Two weeks ago, Saudi Arabia’s new oil minister declared a ceasefire in the two-year-old oil war with the …
It’s Time to End Supply Management
Conservative Party of Canada leadership candidate Maxime Bernier has come out against the long standing practice of agricultural supply management for dairy, poultry and eggs. It is rare for a Canadian politician to take on this issue, but the evidence …
What’s the right price for carbon? Take a guess, everyone else is.
This op ed was originally published by The Financial Post on Thursday, June 16, 2016: http://business.financialpost.com/fp-comment/junk-science-week-whats-the-right-price-for-carbon-take-a-guess-everyone-else-is
Contrary to Rumours, There is No License to Pollute Canadian Waterways
In 2012, the Harper government replaced the old Navigable Waters Protection Act (NWPA) with a new Navigation Protection Act (NPA), aimed at updating and simplifying regulations governing transportation on inland waterways, sparking considerable controversy. Many groups slammed the changes and …
Climate Crazy Ontario
The latest news out of Queen’s Park is that Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals plan to deindustrialize Ontario. Of course they don’t call it that; they prefer the term “decarbonize.” But for an industrial economy, the government’s new climate action plan, leaked …
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