Natural Resources committee  I'll half agree with that. I do agree that there is a failure in the way they did the policy and the pricing. You've talked about the lower prices for wind energy and solar energy that are happening in the wider marketplace, and that's true to a certain extent. However, first,

Natural Resources committee  First, renewable energy has a role to play in every energy system. It can be there, and it can provide some sort of value. But what happened in Ontario, and what's happened in other jurisdictions around the world that have gone all in on it, is that they overemphasize the value o

Natural Resources committee  There's the idea that if you get a carbon price, it sends the risk signal to all industry, and then they can decide how best to attack it. If government comes up with an idea and they've quantified the cost of carbon to Canada and Canadian taxpayers, Canadian ratepayers, they can

Natural Resources committee  First I want to thank the members of this committee for the opportunity to provide my insight and thoughts on the proposed study. We've provided a brief background of my work and that of the Consumer Policy Institute, the Toronto-based organization of which I am the executive d