Reading Time: 3 minutes Deficits might seem like an abstract problem for our future selves (or future generations) but in Ontario, this simply isn’t the case
Tag: Ontario economy
Higher electricity costs disproportionally hurt southwestern Ontario
Reading Time: 3 minutes The suffering of those in the region should be a cautionary tale about how higher energy prices lower competitiveness and damage economic prosperity
Why Ontarians should care about Alberta oil and gas
Reading Time: 4 minutes Alberta’s consumers, businesses and governments were responsible for $31.4 billion of Ontario’s total interprovincial trade in 2016 alone
Trudeau delivers another blow to energy, mining sectors
Reading Time: 3 minutes Plan requiring projects to describe how they will achieve net-zero emissions may not even be feasible
Government debt piling up for Ontarians
Reading Time: 3 minutes Blame economic contraction due to COVID-19 and increased government spending at the provincial and federal levels
Make Ontario energy affordable again
Reading Time: 3 minutes Premier Doug Ford must fulfil his promise to scrap the cap-and-trade carbon tax
Ontario’s wrong-headed energy policy burns 75,000 jobs
Reading Time: 3 minutes The province’s manufacturing sector may find itself even less competitive soon due to developments in the United States
Ontario electricity prices set to keep rising
Reading Time: 3 minutes The province pays extraordinary rates to solar, wind and biofuel generators. But the wind doesn’t always blow and the sun doesn’t always shine
Ontario must pull the plug on painful electricity-related policies
Reading Time: 3 minutes Ontario electricity rates for industry are among highest in North America, thanks to a series of bad government policy decisions
The short-circuit in Ontario’s manufacturing sector
Reading Time: 3 minutes The province’s high electricity prices – driven by wrong-headed policies – are responsible for a staggering 75,000 manufacturing job losses