Growing stronger: strengthening Canada’s agriculture in the face of climate and global challenges
Agriculture is an important contributor to Canada’s economy and way of life, and it is imperative that we innovate to safeguard the stability and success of our food system even as serious and complex threats continue to mount.
We need agricultural intelligence to protect against the threat of avian influenza
As of early March, 30 poultry operations in Canada were dealing with avian influenza outbreaks: 16 in B.C., 10 in Ontario, and one each in Alberta, Quebec, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador.
Trade war with U.S. an opportunity to clean up Canada’s approach to toxic pesticides
When it comes to ensuring pesticide regulations reflect the latest science, Canada is painfully behind the times.
Don’t let Maple MAGAs dictate Canada’s path
Unfortunately, there are many eager to use Trump’s tariff threats as cover to advance a ‘maple-MAGA’ agenda that includes gutting Canadian environmental protections and securing new subsidies for upstream oil and gas.
Losing the consumer carbon tax takes Canada a step backwards
Overall, losing the consumer carbon tax takes Canada a step backwards on its decarbonization journey while also making life harder for low- and middle-income households.
Future of the carbon tax
The world’s leading climatologists agree that, unless there is an extremely larger effort to cut emissions, it will be next to impossible to do so sufficiently in the following few years in order to not reach 450ppm and go beyond.
Increased electrification, tighter building codes could be needed if consumer carbon tax scrapped, say experts
The clock is loudly ticking on a likely federal election in the spring, leaving the future of Ottawa’s carbon pricing regime unclear.
Canada’s unnecessary carbon tax detour
The climate threat is too important to allow any discipline to mislead us. Carbon taxes are not essential. We need to reduce GHG emissions at a good pace and it’s likely easier if we don’t waste money. Let’s focus on advancing and defending the policies that have a better chance politically.
Farewell, consumer carbon tax
Canada needs predictability on environment and economic policies to create a competitive advantage over the chaos being generated by the U.S. administration. That should begin by specifying what will replace the consumer carbon tax and how all the many aspects of climate policy will work synergistically to protect the environment and strengthen the Canadian economy.
Time for Canada to strengthen its digital sovereignty
Canada must address our excessive dependence on the U.S. for critical national communication infrastructure.
