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Janice MacKinnon: Carney repackages Trudeau’s climate plan, hopes we won’t notice

Mark Carney portrays himself as a political outsider and Liberal leadership candidate who represents change. One of his few policy proposals is to replace the consumer carbon tax with a complex regulatory scheme that will result in a higher industrial carbon tax on big emitters and subsidies for consumer purchases of environmentally friendly products. Further he will place tariffs on products from countries with weak carbon policies as well as tighten financial regulations that will make it more difficult for big emitters to raise capital. Canadian taxpayers will not be better off since companies will pass on their increased costs to consumers, who will lose the consumer carbon tax rebates, and only prosperous Canadians will be able to take advantage of subsidies for products like electric cars. Read More

Lawrence Krauss: Land acknowledgements often ignore history

I remember the first time I heard a statement at a public event along the lines of, “This building is located on traditional unceded Aboriginal land.” It was in Australia, and it struck me as disingenuous, simplistic and patronizing. If the people making this statement really felt that badly about the land they (and possibly their forebearers) lived and worked on for generations and ostensibly stole, then they would reasonably choose to give the land back along with all they had built upon it. Read More
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