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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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Connecting BC: A 10-year vision for public transit throughout BC
Let’s not keep BC riders waiting. It’s time to invest in the transit British Columbians deserve.
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Connecting BC
After years of neglect and privatization, today’s transit system in BC is plagued with overcrowding, delays and big gaps in service. The good news is…
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Knives out for Clean BC
It’s taken sixteen years of incremental policy change in BC but you might have noticed that climate policies are starting to take hold. Electric vehicles…
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Beleaguered federal government unlikely to turn the page with restrained fiscal update
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland talks up housing and affordability while austerity looms
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What would it take to meet Canada’s 2030 climate targets?
Adapted from the CCPA’s fall 2023 submission to Canada’s Net-Zero Advisory Body by Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood & Marc Lee When Canada first signed the Paris…
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How Canada can meet its 2030 climate targets
Adapted from the CCPA’s fall 2023 submission to Canada’s Net-Zero Advisory Body by Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood & Marc Lee
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The federal government’s potential leap towards housing affordability
This is an excerpt from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ annual Alternative Federal Budget chapter on housing. It outlines what an ambitious federal government…
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The federal government could make real progress on housing affordability
Federal cabinet ministers are meeting in Charlottetown to discuss the housing crisis
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Housing lessons from Singapore
Could Singapore, a city-state of 5.5 million across the ocean in Asia, hold the key to BC’s housing future? On a recent trade mission to…
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The Energy Action Framework and BC’s carbon crossroads revisited
Since first starting down the pathway of climate action in 2007, the BC government has both developed policies to reduce carbon emissions domestically while simultaneously…
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That 70s show: The evolution of income inequality in Canada
This brief looks at the evolution of inequality going back to 1976. Drawing on Statistics Canada’s Canadian Income Survey, it reviews changes in the…
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The Bank of Canada’s obsession with interest rate hikes is hurting households: How did we get here and what are the alternatives?
The Bank of Canada’s June decision to raise its overnight, or policy, interest rate to 4.75% is predicated on cooling an overly strong economy afflicted…
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