Kenneth P Green

Ottawa gambling on electric with taxpayer money

The Trudeau government has made transport electrification into a shining star of industrial policy. Not only is Ottawa willing to pick and choose the technologies of the future, its ready to pick and choose the subsidiary activities needed to bring…

OPINION: Trudeau government gambles on electric with taxpayer money

Article content The Trudeau government has made transport electrification a shining star of industrial policy. Not only is Ottawa willing to pick and choose the technologies of the future, its ready to pick and choose the subsidiary activities needed…

Federal government still peddling COVID misinformation

A new report from the non-profit Cochrane Library in the United Kingdom, a clearing-house of health-care information, confirms once again that most of the things government insisted people do during the pandemic were useless in preventing COVID…

GREEN: Trudeau government still peddling COVID misinformation

A new report from the non-profit Cochrane Library in the United Kingdom, a clearinghouse of health-care information, confirms that most of what the government insisted people do during the pandemic were useless in preventing COVID infection or…

Ottawa’s ‘net-zero’ mission will cause widespread economic and social harm

This year—2023—marks year two of Canada’s net-zero plan, which will remake virtually every aspect of our economy and society, if it proceeds according to the Trudeau government’s ambitious plans. To recap, the Canadian Net-Zero Emissions…

GREEN: Trudeau's 'net-zero' mission will cause widespread economic and social harm

Article content This year — 2023 — marks year two of Canada’s net-zero plan, which will remake virtually every aspect of our economy and society, if it proceeds according to the Trudeau government’s ambitious plans. Article content To recap, the…

Ottawa denies natural gas to another trading partner and perpetuates fictitious agenda

Having shown Germany the back of his hand in August when Chancellor Olaf Scholz asked to buy some of Canada’s abundant natural gas, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau repeated the performance only two weeks into 2023 — this time snubbing the people of…

Governments eschewed science during COVID response

As we enter a new year, it’s worth recalling a hard truth from the recent past. Government treatment of COVID-19 was starkly at odds with the realities of the risks. In short, a risk that was non-uniform across the age range was treated as uniform. A…

COVID risk—we’re not ‘all in this together’

As Canadians gather for the holidays, chatter on social media suggests that people remain unsure how to minimize the risk of COVID-19 and prevent transmission to loved ones. But before we reach for the masks and hand sanitizer, reapply footprints on…

Conventional plastic recycling doesn’t work—even Greenpeace says so

As many Canadians know by now, the Trudeau government has declared war on plastic waste, as part of the larger “net zero” greenhouse gas emissions plan launched in 2020. And yet, the government’s own research (you know, the science) shows that Canada…

Conference in the Holy Land produces glimmers of climate policy sanity

As we approach December, a Month of Many Miracles, we may be seeing sparks of sanity emerging on the climate policy front. For the first time in this writer’s memory, this year’s United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP27) ended with some…

Guest Opinion: Conference in the Holy Land produces glimmers of climate policy sanity

Article content As we approach December, a Month of Many Miracles, we may be seeing sparks of sanity emerging on the climate policy front. Article content For the first time in this writer’s memory, this year’s United Nations Conference of the…

Ottawa stoking unfounded climate fears to remake Canada

Once again, the Trudeau government has claimed that global weather disasters, ostensibly driven by human greenhouse gas emissions, are increasing, will continue to increase, and you should be frightened. Frightened enough, in fact, to let the…

Another reason to oppose Ottawa’s carbon tax

As the holiday season nears, the Trudeau government has managed to create yet another reason to oppose the federal carbon tax. Previous reasons include: 1) it’s raising the cost of everything, 2) it’s not (nor will it ever) meaningfully lower the…

Guest Column: Another reason to oppose Trudeau’s carbon tax

As the holiday season nears, the Trudeau government has managed to create yet another reason to oppose the federal carbon tax. Article content Previous reasons include: 1) it’s raising the cost of everything, 2) it’s not (nor will it ever) meaningful…

COVID-19: The Risk in Perspective

The global reaction to COVID-19 was unprecedented. Government actions proposed, promoted, mandated and enforced to modify the risks to individuals and society as a whole were orders of magnitude more intrusive than any other risk-intervention…

Don't be fooled by ‘per-capita emissions’ metrics

Once again, Canada is being portrayed as an environmental laggard, and by implication, Canadians are being portrayed as morally dubious. Even the prime minister receives a drubbing. Why? Because declines in per-capita greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions…

Ottawa’s opposition to natural gas hurting Canadians and the world

Governments in Canada have been on a mission, which began in earnest in 2015, to shut down fossil fuel production, distribution, consumption and (indirectly) trade. While opposition to the oilsands has gotten the most attention, the Trudeau…

Ottawa’s ‘net-zero’ transit plan seems disconnected from reality

In case you haven’t heard, the Trudeau government has a plan for Canada to become a “net-zero” emitter of greenhouse gases by 2050 with an interim plan to 2030. As some analysts (including myself) have observed, this is a quixotic endeavour doomed to…

Ottawa’s ‘net-zero’ housing plan makes zero sense

The Trudeau government wants Canada to achieve “net-zero” greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050. In plain English, that means the country can’t emit any more GHGs into the atmosphere than are taken out of the atmosphere. If that policy sounds like…