Canada can take clean stimulus lessons from Obama

As commentators around the world have noted, we have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to build back better. We don’t have to go back to normal.

Following the 2008 financial crisis, countries around the world put together stimulus packages with varying emphasis on clean energy. The U.S., under then-president Barack Obama, was one of the largest clean energy spenders, second only to China.The Hill Times file photograph

Opinion

BY DAN WOYNILLOWICZ

May 6, 2020

“This is a meaningful, shovel-ready project that will create jobs for local workers.” This 2009 quote, from then-prime minister Stephen Harper announcing fe...

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