Absence of environmental spending in federal budget may not be fatal

What successive federal governments haven't acknowledged is that we can't just 'buy our way' to a cleaner environment, particularly not with taxpayer dollars.

Environmental spending was almost non-existent in last month's federal budget. While many stakeholders were up in arms about the dearth of money, the day will come when near zero spending on the environment denotes a government that actually understands the relationship between Canada's economy a...

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