Political opportunism one reason for Conservative rejection of carbon pricing

They hope that they can garner votes by opposing any increase in prices at the gas pump from carbon pricing, though they have no objection if oil companies raise prices.

Canada's federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna, Ontario PC leader Doug Ford, Alberta United Conservative leader Jason Kenney, and federal Conservative leader Andrew Scheer.The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

May 21, 2018

TORONTO—My late great, friend Fraser Mustard, founder of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, would often ask, “why is there such a gap between what we know and what we do?” The British economist, Diane Coyle, asked the same question in a different way in her 2011 book on “how to ru...

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