A burning platform for a national fire administration
Creating a Canadian Fire Administration could be one of the most consequential policy tools in the history of fire and emergency management in Canada. Fire chiefs are willing to help make this happen. We hope policy leaders will take our advice seriously.
Federal government can do more to help aviation industry get to 2050 target
Capital expenditure tax claims like SR&ED could make the difference between an advanced manufacturing facility in aviation being built in Canada or not.
Environment lobbying leads in October in advance of feds’ anticipated oil and gas cap
Draft regulations for the Liberal government’s long-awaited oil and gas cap are “coming very soon,” according to a spokesperson in the Environment Minister’s office.
World leaders should adjust their global CO2 emissions strategy
Taking an alternative look at how to deal with the energy transition would be a better strategy than crying that the sky is falling while you hope to hold it up with your finger.
Will the real climate leaders please stand up?
Beyond COP28, the question is, what story will parties tell on fighting climate change when the next election comes? Will they be able to say they reigned in oil and gas emissions? Or will it be the same story about carbon pricing, more unkept promises and missed targets?
Senators caught in the middle as government and opposition dig in their heels on carbon tax exemption for farmers
Conservative MP Ben Lobb’s private member’s bill made it through the House last March with support from all opposition MPs. Any amendments in the Senate would send it back, and Conservatives say the Liberals will bury it.
Big costs sink flagship nuclear project and will sink future small modular reactor projects, too
Adverse economics killed the flagship NuScale SMR project. There is no reason to believe the costs of SMR designs proposed in Canada will be any lower. Are government officials hearing the alarm bells?
The significant and existential threat to Arctic sovereignty from climate change
Strong, Secure, and Engaged had no new initiatives to increase natural disaster fighting capabilities, leaving the women and men in the Armed Forces without meaningful investments in the training and equipment required to combat this growing threat.
How to think about the carbon tax setback?
It may be tempting to view the suspension of the carbon tax on oil heating as a lack of courage by political decision-makers. But the federal government’s decision also illustrates the limits of a climate strategy built around carbon pricing.
‘Everything is not going right for them’: feds’ confusing messaging on pause on home heating oil carbon pricing puts them ‘on the defensive,’ says Nanos
It could be difficult for the Liberal Party to outflank the Conservatives on affordability issues and to recover in the polls, says president and Innovative Research Group founder Greg Lyle.
