Reading Time: 4 minutes Ill-considered responses by Canada’s federal and provincial governments left highly damaging long-term legacies
Author: Gwyn Morgan
Gwyn Morgan has become one of Canada’s foremost business leaders and an ardent champion of the importance of Canadian-headquartered international enterprises. Gwyn has served on the board of directors of five global corporations. He serves as a trustee of the Fraser Institute, the Manning Centre for Building Democracy and the Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education.
He devoted three decades to building EnCana Corp. into Canada’s largest energy company. When he stepped down as founding CEO at the end of 2005, EnCana was Canada's most valuable company with a stock market value of approximately $60-billion. Gwyn has been recognized as Canada’s Outstanding CEO of the Year and also as Canada’s Most Respected CEO. He has been inducted as a Member of The Order of Canada.
How Canada can cut global emissions and boost its economy
Reading Time: 4 minutes Exporting LNG to displace coal is a powerful way for Canada to be a leader in helping reduce global emissions
The hazards of pursuing a green power utopia
Reading Time: 4 minutes The federal government’s plan to replace fossil fuels with wind and solar is technically impossible and economically disastrous
Only private investment will save Canada’s economy
Reading Time: 4 minutes Generating, rather than consuming, government revenues will require a clear and profound reversal by the current government
Did we really need the Canada Student Service Grant?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Or was Trudeau just trying to buy the votes of young Canadians
Assessing the lockdown’s damage
Reading Time: 4 minutes For a healthy working-age person, the risk of dying from COVID-19 is significantly lower than dying by accident or from other diseases
Act now to end Alberta’s economic nightmare
Reading Time: 4 minutes Canada’s recovery will depend on government policies that actively encourage, rather than impede, resource investment
Canada’s hospital system ill-prepared for COVID-19 crisis
Reading Time: 4 minutes Canada’s hopelessly dysfunctional and dangerous government-monopoly health-care system one of the least prepared in the world to deal with the crisis
First Nation supporters of Coastal GasLink need to step up
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s time to go to each of the 20 First Nations that support Coastal GasLink to solicit their help in making sure the pipeline gets built
Trudeau throwing away Canada’s future for a seat at the UN table
Reading Time: 4 minutes The government has compounded the problem of stalled pipeline projects by adopting UNDRIP, the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People