Christopher Ragan

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Defying Gravity: The Compelling but Challenging Case for Diversifying Canada’s Trade

Defying Gravity: The Compelling but Challenging Case for Diversifying Canada’s Trade

Amid U.S. President Donald Trump’s on-again-off-again trade war, trade diversification has been the talk of the town. But for a country like Canada, which has long felt the gravitational pull of the enormous U.S. market, diversifying trade will be no easy feat. It also shouldn’t be the goal in and of itself. As the first part of the IRPP’s new...

Carbon pricing has become our national dumpster fire

Carbon pricing has become our national dumpster fire

dumpster fire. Unfortunately, that fire might end up scorching Canadians. But maybe it’s not too late to douse the flames. While the current federal government introduced carbon pricing, it has recently undermined the coherence of the policy. Carbon pricing works at low cost to reduce greenhouse gas emissions precisely because it lets the market – not politicians – identify low-cost...