Pierre Poilievre wants to scrap Canada’s most effective climate policy. It’s a bad idea.
The election hasn’t even been called yet but it has already likely killed the federal carbon tax. Depending on who you ask, the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act, as it was officially named when it was established in 2018, is either a creative way to motivate Canadians to conserve energy and use renewable sources or a heavy-handed, nanny-state intervention that punishes people struggling to pay the bills. It’s terribly polarizing. Pierre Poilievre rose to prominence on his “axe the tax” slogan. He calls Mark Carney “Carbon Tax Carney” as an insult. Rumours are that when Chrystia Freeland enters the race for Liberal leadership, she will distance herself from the act, and that Carney might abandon it, too. Ditching the carbon tax would be bad news for Canada and the planet, says Kathryn Harrison, a professor of political science at UBC. In an essay for the annual Maclean’s Year Ahead issue, Harrison argues that the tax has a lot going for it. “Axing the tax,” she warns, “will reinforce the myth that we can meet our climate goals at no inconvenience to everyday Canadians.” Visit macleans.ca for more coverage of everything that matters in Canada, and subscribe to the magazine here. —Sarah Fulford, editor-in-chief, Maclean’s |
Canadians will make pioneering advances in artificial intelligence, driverless vehicles and quantum computing. And we’ll all finally get plugged into high-speed internet. Here’s everything you need to know about what’s new and exciting in Canada’s tech sector this year |
In December of 2024, the federal government softened its rules around mortgage lending. The idea behind the new policies is to make housing accessible to more homebuyers—and that’s what they’ll do, at least on paper. According to Andrey Pavlov, a professor of finance at Simon Fraser University, here’s why these rules will backfire. |
At first, Trump’s comments threatening to turn Canada into the 51st state seemed like a cruel joke. Surely calling Trudeau the “governor” of “the great state of Canada” was just a bullying tactic. But Trump’s bizarre barking has started to feel legitimately menacing. At Maclean’s, we had two questions: could Trump actually invade? And if yes, what would that look like? We asked Canadian writer Stephen Marche, author of The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future, to map it out. |
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