As it is currently configured, Ontario's HST rebate on hydro bills is a poorly designed program.

CCPA senior economists Sheila Block and David Macdonald tested a fairer alternative to the current HST rebate program that would direct the greatest benefits to low- and middle-income households. 

This short two-part report shows that between 2013 and 2016, more raw logs were shipped from BC than during any other four-year period in the province’s history. If these logs had been processed in some of BC’s hardest hit forestry communities, at least 3,600 new jobs could have been generated. This has prompted two forest industry unions and three leading environmental groups to call for a ban on raw log exports from old-growth forests and bold government action to stimulate BC’s flagging forest sector. 

Business lobby groups have long complained of different consumer protection and health measures creating unreasonable “barriers” to trade and investment. They have now identified international co-operation, with industry input at the earliest stages of regulatory development, as the next great leap forward to shape globalization according to their interests.

This study re-examines Canada’s contribution to global climate change in light of the Paris Agreement by looking at extracted carbon—the total amount of fossil fuels removed from Canadian soil that ends up in the atmosphere—whether used for domestic purposes or exported and combusted elsewhere.