While National Newswatch does not keep an archive of external articles for longer than 6 months, we do keep all articles written by contributors who post directly to our site. Here you will find all of the contributed and linked external articles from Gerald Butts.
Gerald Butts is vice-chairman of Eurasia Group. Peter Nicholson and Rick Smith are chair of the board and president of the Canadian Climate Institute. The rest of the world is ramping up its transition to cleaner, more efficient, electric technologies, while the Trump administration is leading the United States down a dead-end street. That’s one rather glaring conclusion from the...
It’s easy for North Americans, inundated by Trump news, to start to assume that the entire world has lost interest in decarbonization. Nothing could be further from the truth. There are, in fact, too many examples to cite to illustrate the opposite. Here are just a few that show cutting emissions is now fully aligned with basic economics.
Trudeau II: Act V, Scene i. What can you say about the events of last Monday here in the Nation’s Capital? The spectacle of Chrystia Freeland taking Justin Trudeau out with the calculated precision of a Ukrainian drone strike had pundits and politicos reaching for their Shakespeare. Fitting, since both principals are now more likely to die (politically), and the...
Why sovereigntists see their chance now. IT’S 2016, the year of Brexit and Trump—but May, one month before the former and six before the latter. Barack Obama is addressing the G7 for the final time in a private session. I watch him describe the critical role that table played in managing the global events of his presidency. From the fallout...
Right now, a historic opportunity lies within Canada’s grasp — the federal government can approve the Nunavut Land Use Plan (NLUP), the largest land use plan in the world. Approving this plan represents the chance to secure Indigenous culture, to facilitate new economic development and to deliver on our international conservation commitments.