Let’s cut the red tape and roll out a green carpet for clean-tech solutions in Canada

Ironically, some of the regulations that were meant to protect the environment are now endangering it. This is because some mandatory review processes needlessly add years and millions of dollars to the deployment of new clean technologies.
Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne said that the Liberal government 'knows that if we want to decarbonize, we need to work with industry, particularly when it comes to plastics,' in a Finance Canada press release from Nov. 29.

There’s a lot to disagree about when it comes to fighting climate change. Reasonable people can advocate for very different policies and approaches. What no one can dispute, however, is the need to move faster—and specifically for governments to do their part by clearing...

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