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Marc Lee
Marc Lee is a Senior Economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Marc joined the CCPA’s British Columbia office in 1998, and is one of Canada’s leading progressive commentators on economic and environmental policy issues. From 2009 to 2015, Marc led the CCPA’s Climate Justice Project (CJP), which published a wide range of research on fair and effective approaches to climate action through integrating principles of social justice. Marc continues to write about climate and energy policy, strategies for affordable housing, federal and provincial budgets and macroeconomics. Marc has an MA in Economics from Simon Fraser University and a BA in Economics from the University of Western Ontario. Marc is a past chair of the Progressive Economics Forum, a national network of heterodox economists. He also served as a Visiting Professor at Simon Fraser University’s School of Public Policy in 2024 to 2025. Follow Marc on Twitter
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Budget 2023: a risky bet on cleaner capitalism
The 2023 federal budget goes puts the market at the forefront of climate solutions—at our own peril
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BC’s Homes for People plan: Some positive steps but still behind on non-market housing
The BC government’s April 2023 Homes for People (HFP) plan marks an important step forward towards better managing and regulating housing in the province. With…
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Big challenges and opportunities for the BC budget
British Columbia is facing big social and environmental challenges ahead of Budget 2023: sky high rents, health care under enormous strain, a toxic drugs crisis,…
Still so far from home: An update on BC’s 114,000 homes promise
There is a huge opportunity for the BC government, under new leadership, to address housing affordability by making major investments in non-market housing. A growing…
Spending What It Takes: Transformational climate investments for long-term prosperity in Canada
The world is confronted with a slew of accelerating and converging crises, from climate change and biodiversity loss to energy insecurity, unaffordable living and rising…
Spending What it Takes
Transformational climate investments for long-term prosperity in Canada Download 1.08 MB34 pages The world is confronted with a slew of accelerating and converging crises, from…
Counting the Costs and Contradictions of the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion
Canada’s uneasy relationship between climate change and fossil fuel development was illustrated in November 2021 when seven atmospheric rivers hit southern BC. The “big one”…
Swimming against the tide
The challenge of higher interest rates and high household debt The run-up of interest rates since March, led by the Bank of Canada in a…
Severe climate events cost BC economy billions more than reported estimates
Caroline and Paul Mosterman have seen their share of unusual weather in four-plus decades of farming. But nothing comes remotely close to what they experienced…
A Climate Reckoning
The economic costs of BC’s extreme weather in 2021 Download 1.48 MB56 pages BC’s severe climate events in 2021 cost the province’s economy billions more…
Capping oil and gas emissions: Production declines must be central to discussion
New federal proposals for an emissions cap on the oil and gas industry have begun a difficult and uncomfortable conversation, but one that finally gets…
Anticlimactic and anti-climate: BC’s oil and gas royalty review
The BC government’s recently completed review of its royalty regime for oil and gas is both anticlimactic and anti-climate. After many months of public engagement—including…