“What a difference it would have made had the oil sector spoken up, elbows up, for the thousands of energy workers—the way the automotive sector has always done for its own.” The most noteworthy thing about the “open letter” that 14 top oil and gas CEOs...
Who can argue that a formula that takes from financially-stressed Newfoundland and gives to Ontario, or exempts the entirety of Quebec’s hydroelectric revenue, is fair? Canada, eh? That Canadians supposedly say “eh” and “aboot” is one of the more...
Saskatchewan should never have adhered to Harper’s mandate to phase out coal—with its devastating impact on at least 1,000 jobs in our southeast communities “We may not go ahead with the consumer carbon price,” Steven Guilbeault suddenly announced last week, as he...
There’s a reason why Norway’s US$1 trillion sovereign wealth fund isn’t allowed to invest domestically: to ensure diversification and prevent political interference. Current and future Canadian pensioners dodged a bullet when Justin Trudeau resigned on Monday....
When I was energy minister, American investors would ask me, “What have you guys got going on up there?…What country does that to itself?” Speaking on the Trump tariff issue, federal industry minister François-Philippe Champagne said in a media scrum last week...
