Last week, CAE released an Assessment of the Proposed Canada-Wide Clean Fuel Standard. I like to refer to the Clean Fuel Standard (CFS) as “Trudeau’s Second Carbon Tax.” The Liberal government argues that the CFS (set to hit consumers and businesses in just under 15 months) will help meet Canada’s Paris Agreement commitments (a reduction … Continued
Wednesday’s throne speech made one thing clear: the Liberals are not backing down from their unachievable net-zero goal. That means they are not backing down from their second carbon tax, the Clean Fuel Standard (CFS). But we at CAE are not backing down either. In fact, we are committed to giving Canadians all the ugly … Continued
Did you catch Justin Trudeau’s “Green Recovery” Speech from the Throne? Wait, you say. The slogan “Green Recovery” was completely absent. Didn’t hear it – not even once! Correct. So it seems that the slogan “green recovery” obviously didn’t play well in the pre throne speech focus groups for the Trudeau Liberals. Even though this … Continued
So the media is finally shedding a spotlight on the so-called Clean Fuel Standard – Trudeau’s second carbon tax. More and more are beginning to write about it, and how it means just another burden. So what does Doug Ford do? He seeks approval for a carbon tax of his own from the federal government … Continued
Our Minister of Environment and Climate Change Jonathan Wilkinson has tried to dismiss backlash against the CFS as mere political partisanship. That suggests he means it is simply Conservative Party positioning. In dismissing any opposition to the Clean Fuel Standard as partisan, the Liberals are merely attempting to end all debate around the policy. They … Continued
All of a sudden there is a lot of attention being paid to the Trudeau Government’s second carbon tax, the so-called Clean Fuel Standard (CFS). I have been writing about it for some time and am delighted to see more opinion leaders paying attention to it. Journalists like John Ivison, and Anthony Furey have written … Continued
The most recent golden child of the global climate alarmist movement (and therefore of our Prime Minister and his cabinet) is hydrogen. Seamus O’Regan, our minister of Natural Resources, has jumped onto the hydrogen bandwagon. Gerald Butts, and the rest of the members of the Task Force for a Resilient Recovery, are big fans of … Continued
The Trudeau government, and particularly Seamus O’Regan, our Minister of Natural Resources, are smitten with electricity. For them, electrifying everything is the means by which we will get to our illustrious goal of net-zero by 2050. And leaders in the electricity industry seem happy to push this story. A recent article in Corporate Knights penned … Continued
In June 2020 the Minister of Natural Resources, the Honourable Seamus O’Regan, announced a new regulation that would improve the efficiency of environmental assessments for offshore exploratory drilling in Newfoundland by making it exempt from federal environmental impact assessment. That is quite a mouthful. What it really means is that exploratory offshore drilling off the … Continued
Summer is coming to an end, and the Trudeau government is preparing to roll out a brand-new carbon tax to cap off a year of high costs and financial struggles for Canadians. What’s that? A new carbon tax? Yes, a new carbon tax. Not “new and improved” – just new. The new tax that will … Continued