Very weak article.
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Very weak article.
It's like the David Cochrane quote last week: America isn't the way it is because Trump is president; Trump is president because America is the way it is.
And it will also be the recipient of a determination from IAAC during the planning phase, sometime in the next couple months, that no federal impact assessment is required.
The article states that their “decarbonization ambitions remain the same”… and I’m gonna suggest that’s probably true but tells us a lot more about what their actual decarbonization ambitions were in the first place… 🙄
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Comments due Jan. 30! Luckily there's a nice Christmas break ahead to take the time to map out a banger submission... :-)
Important discussion paper dropped today from ECCC on how to strengthen carbon markets in Canada, as part of the 2026 federal pricing benchmark review of federal and provincial industrial carbon pricing systems. Comments due by Jan. 30.
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Oh you must have missed the details on how they will strengthen industrial carbon pricing. They will “work with the provinces.” 😂
Excellent advice. Time well spent.
Same as it ever was.
Imagine if there was only a Prime Minister willing to enforce the federal backstop? Sorry, got to talking crazy there for a second.
Why would you be sceptical about Alberta industrials getting TIER credit for investments in their already-pla… sorry I mean their totally new ideas for on-site projects they totally were not already planning to do? I mean, they do have net zero by 2050 commitments.
To be fair: most people that don’t like cilantro have a gene that makes cilantro taste like soap. Not really a preference issue. 😊
I think we are not taking seriously enough that this government's goal is all economic all the time - in this case, helping the auto sector, not 'getting EV sales back on track'.
I think we have 30 years of evidence that no Canadian government has ever felt any shred of responsibility to the GHG reduction targets set by previous governments... or lasted long enough to be "held responsible" (whatever that would mean) for meeting its own.
It will not.
Watch for Carney to get out in front of this and cancel the EV mandate before Poilievre even has a chance to come up with a good verb-the-noun slogan around this one…
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This is an excellent way to describe the output of LLMs.
That was gonna be my joke.
For the public, sure. For the billionaire class and fossil fuel companies and investors? Sweet, sweet profits.
Whether to call something a ‘Failure’ depends on one’s objectives. 🤷🏻♂️ I’d call this a potentially successful policy measure to stall the clean energy transition.
… this would eliminate the very detailed TISGs which proponents are apparently finding it impossible to satisfy? The timing delays for projects in the Planning phase are not excessive (most are asking for a pause but not over long); it’s in Phase 2 where everything seems stuck.
Great article @davevwright.bsky.social and @molszyns.bsky.social as of course I expected. I read the Bill first then went to ABLawg for the low down. I am trying to figure out the rationale behind stripping away just the Planning Phase for IAA reviews, and all I can come up with is that maybe…
Yes. Hopefully that’s all it is.
…then I’m not sure that “the government stopped their huge rebates so of course we expected sales to fall by almost half” is exactly a ringing endorsement of the views of Canadian car owners about EVs.
Not disagreeing about the role of the rebates. But if showing that EV sales have been growing rather than declining is intended to support a narrative that consumers want EVs (contrary to the Herald narrative)…
Oh I’m not defending that Postmedia rag. But I suspect these stories are circulating now because of some disturbing recent facts, which we shouldn’t ignore. I hope this is an unfortunate two-month trend that turns around quickly.
Actually, Feb and March 2025 EV sales down significantly in Canada compared to 2024.
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Ok but EV sales actually HAVE declined pretty significantly in the first few months of 2025 compared to 2024.
www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quo...
