Canada should act decisively to modernize industrial carbon pricing

Moving firmly on industrial carbon pricing can actually increase certainty for business, break down an interprovincial trade barrier, and support export diversification.

Linking carbon markets only works if provincial systems are harmonized around critical design elements, and federal efforts to help harmonize provincial systems can create the conditions for linkage, writes Dale Beugin. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DALE BEUGIN

May 7, 2025

The federal government faces urgent challenges on multiple fronts, and climate policy is no exception. Economic uncertainty—courtesy of our neighbour to the south—is roiling markets, and slowing investment and growth. Efforts to drop barriers to interprovincial trade are...

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