What if Canada’s top climate policy was a critical economic driver, too?

It is critical that Canada and Alberta remain focused on industrial carbon pricing as the foundational economic driver and climate policy it is.

Prime Minister Mark Carney, left, and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith agreed in last year’s MOU to address this issue and achieve a minimum effective price of $130 per tonne. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY TIM WEIS

April 13, 2026

EDMONTON—It is often said, correctly, that industrial carbon pricing is Canada’s most important climate policy—with the potential to reduce emissions by 20 per cent to 50 per cent by 2030. Well, it’s also one of the most important tools we have to drive private inves...

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