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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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Inside the Fortress
What’s Going on at the FTAA Negotiations Download 356.59 KB36 pages
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Put the BC surplus to work
This week’s report from the BC Ministry of Finance forecasts a whopping provincial surplus of more than $1 billion. The result is a unique opportunity…
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What are we going to do about Saudi Alberta?
Imagine a family with ten children. Some of the kids may be a little smarter or prettier due to the luck of the draw. But…
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The case of the missing deficit
What a difference a year and a half makes. Last week’s announcement that BC booked a surplus of $52 million in the 1999/00 fiscal year…
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Beware the tax cut siren song
It’s finally summer, and heat waves have replaced “tax rage”–for the time being anyway. The campaign for lower taxes and smaller government is sure to…
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Are tax cuts a free lunch?
The oft-repeated message that tax cuts will not decrease government revenues has a definite appeal. It says that not only can you have tax cuts,…
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Policy Options for Progressive Health Care in BC
Proceedings of a CCPA-BC Workshop on the Future of Health Care Download 435.21 KB 38 pages
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Dear Prudence
BC’s Budget Situation is Better than Many Realize Download 155.51 KB
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Debunking the myth that free trade benefits the world’s poor
Shortly after external protests and internal conflicts hit the Seattle WTO Ministerial and stalled a new negotiating round, The Economist magazine ran a picture of…
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Never cry wolf
Putting BC’s debt into perspective The 2000 BC budget was accompanied by a great deal of howling over the size of the province’s debt and…
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