OTTAWA—Canada’s federal and provincial governments should end their subsidies to the biofuel industry, says a new report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).
The report, by Edward R. Boyle, questions whether governments can afford such expensive and wasteful subsidies in the current economic climate.
“With federal finances sliding into deficit for the first time in a decade, will the Harper government cut provincial transfers for health and social programs while maintaining multi-billion-dollar biofuel subsidies?” asks Boyle.
Environment and sustainability
Inside this issue:
Towards a BC Poverty Reduction Plan
Growing Call for the Living Wage: Making Paid Work Meet Basic Family Needs
Getting By is Getting Harder for Those in “Casual” Jobs
Reinvestment in Forest Sector Needed
Is BC’s Carbon Tax Fair?
GHG Emission Reductions in BC
VICTORIA — In just two years, the Softwood Lumber Agreement has cost BC’s forest industry more than half a billion dollars in new export taxes and led some companies to invest outside the province, a new study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives finds.“Far from delivering security, the Canada-US softwood pact has seriously undermined BC’s lumber producers and hurt rural communities as they struggle through a prolonged economic slump,” says Ben Parfitt, report author and CCPA-BC resource policy analyst.