April 8th 2021 - Archive - The Line

If the Grace Life leaders want to truly make their case, they should be charged

If the Grace Life leaders want to truly make their case, they should be charged

I’ve attended church twice per Sunday pretty much weekly since I was born. My faith is a central part of my life and belief system. It provides me assurance that someone else has paid for something I need, but could…

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March 25th 2021 - Archive - The Line

Dear Doug Ford: Why let Trudeau buy off his voter coalition when you could be buying off yours?

Dear Doug Ford: Why let Trudeau buy off his voter coalition when you could be buying off yours?

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s carbon rebates help fewer federal Conservative voters than non-Conservative voters. In particular, Trudeau is using carbon rebates to lure NDP and Green voters at the expense of Federal Conservative voters. Now that you’ve lost the Supreme…

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March 19th 2021 - Archive - McGill

Ken Boessenkool on Getting a Triple Dividend from a Carbon Tax

Ken Boessenkool on Getting a Triple Dividend from a Carbon Tax

Advocates of using a carbon tax to reduce GHG emissions sometimes refer to a double dividend from placing a price on carbon. The first dividend comes from appropriately pricing externalities through a carbon tax. The second dividend comes from using the…

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January 20th 2021 - Politics - The Line

A real climate-change plan will help O’Toole … even in the west

A real climate-change plan will help O’Toole … even in the west

Just under a year ago I wrote that Conservatives will not win the suburban 905 region around Toronto without a credible climate change plan. I later wrote that a carbon tax with offsetting tax cuts was a vote winner in those Toronto suburbs. Those…

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January 14th 2021 - Family - MAX Policy

Ken Boessenkool Argues for a Childcare Baby Bonus

Ken Boessenkool Argues for a Childcare Baby Bonus

MAX Policy is a collection of provocative ideas and policy solutions generated by the minds at the Max Bell School of Public Policy. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed cracks in the foundations of our social infrastructure. For example, the pandemic has…

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