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Emissions cap: many jobs lost for very few gains, finds MEI
Montreal, November 4, 2024—Capping emissions in the energy industry will cost Canadian workers dearly, while having only a negligible effect on the environment, observed an MEI researcher in reaction to newly published federal regulations.
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Northvolt’s struggles a cautionary tale for Canada’s risky industrial policy
Governments are not equipped to predict which industries will succeed, and when they try to do so, it is taxpayers who are left holding the bag.
IEDM – Les Québécois ne veulent pas de l’obligation d’acheter électrique en 2035! – Gabriel Giguère
October 7, 2024 | 10 min. 56 sec. | Rej against le matin (BLVD 102,1) Interview (in French) with Gabriel Giguère, Senior […]
MEI – Two in three Canadians say banning conventional vehicles by 2035 is “unrealistic” – Krystle Wittevrongel
October 4, 2024 | 6 min. 45 sec. | Midday (CHED AM) Interview with Krystle Wittevrongel, Director of Research at the MEI, […]
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Energy in Canada 2024 – Ipsos poll commissioned by the MEI
More than half of Canadians are against the federal mandate forcing all new cars sold in Canada to be electric by 2035, shows this MEI-Ipsos survey. “Across the country, Canadians are a lot more hesitant to ban conventional vehicles than their elected representatives in Ottawa are,” said Krystle Wittevrongel, director of research at the MEI.
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L’énergie au Québec: vers une nécessaire réforme
On a beau avoir changé de ministre de l’Énergie, l’urgence qui a mené à l’écriture du projet de loi 69 demeure, et le Québec s’en porterait mieux s’il était adopté.
IEDM – L’avenir énergétique du Québec – Gabriel Giguère
Interview (in French) with Gabriel Giguère, Senior Policy Analyst at the MEI, broadcast on August 15, 2024, in the L’anti-chambre d’écho podcast.
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The war on humans
In order to continue to progress, we will need to rediscover Enlightenment humanism, which fully recognizes the determining role of our species in fashioning its environment with a view to greater flourishing.
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Friends shouldn’t let friends buy natural gas from bad places
The federal government’s forthcoming emissions cap on the oil and gas sector will not only kill jobs and hurt the Canadian economy; it will do so for little to no environmental gain.
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Quebec is running out of power, and its economy hangs in the balance
Transmission towers are seen in Montreal belonging to the province’s electric utility, Hydro-Québec, whose current levels of surplus power supply could run out by 2027.