Still troubled by government’s overall approach to ensuring Canada’s businesses remain competitive

Justin Trudeau is finally recognizing what I’ve been saying for years now—and what our committee highlighted in two of its most recent reports—that a carbon price will hurt the competitiveness of our major industrial players.

In May, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna claimed the government’s approach of adopting an intensity standard of 70 per cent was 'smart,' writes Conservative Sen. Richard Neufeld. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SENATOR RICHARD NEUFELD

August 13, 2018

In April 2018, the Senate’s Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources released an interim report on decarbonizing heavy industry as part of its ongoing study on Canada’s transition to a lower-carbon economy. We heard from dozens of witnesses representing emission-intensive trad...

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