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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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The rising cost of living in BC: What’s going on and how should we respond?
The cost of living is going up and is putting strains on household finances. BC’s headline inflation rate hit 6.7% in April, measured by the…
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Canada’s muddled month of climate action: CCPA’s climate plan and budget analysis
The new era of climate ambition looks a lot like the old era of climate foot-dragging
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Over a barrel: The case for a windfall profits tax to address surging gasoline prices
Do you support a windfall profits tax on oil and gas corporations? Let us know at the bottom of this article and sign up to…
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What happened to the 114,000 new affordable homes promised in BC?
During the 2017 election campaign as part of its plan to make life more affordable, the BC NDP promised if elected to “build 114,000 affordable…
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BC’s property tax increases: What has been the impact of the 2018 changes?
Four years ago, the 2018 BC Budget introduced a number of new taxes in support of an affordable housing agenda. The taxes, along with new…
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What happened to the National Housing Strategy?
Launched in 2017, the National Housing Strategy (NHS) was billed as a major re-engagement by the federal government on affordable housing after more than two…
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BC budget moves in the right direction but too slowly to address pressing challenges like housing, climate, toxic drug supply and poverty
With COVID centre stage for the past two years, Budget 2022 marked a shift back to normal. Yes, the budget earmarks $2 billion in contingencies…
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Upzoning Metro Vancouver’s Low-density Neighbourhoods for Housing Affordability
Download 3.06 MB24 pages It’s time to build the housing we need for the future of Metro Vancouver. To address the twin crises of housing…
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Upzoning and housing affordability
With the 2022 municipal elections now in sight—and a housing affordability crisis that’s as bad as ever—the City of Vancouver has embarked on two new…
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Modernizing BC’s Oil and Gas Royalty Regime to Tackle Climate Change
In 2021, BC got a full serving of extreme weather events due to global warming. It is clear that the BC government must speed up…
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Time to reform the unfair Home Owner Grant—here’s how
Early January showed how much BC’s housing system is biased towards existing homeowners to the detriment of renters and housing affordability. First, the latest property…
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BC should look to zero waste solutions to reduce GHG emissions and create jobs
British Columbia is ahead of most North American jurisdictions in implementing composting and recycling programs. Yet, we are systemically burdened by endless amounts of packaging,…