David McLaughlin
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About David McLaughlin
David McLaughlin is the director of climate change - Canada at the International Institute for Sustainable Development. He has served as a senior advisor to former prime minister Brian Mulroney, Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister and the late former finance minister Jim Flaherty.
Manitoba's fickle relationship with carbon pricing
How Manitoba arrived at the decision to reject carbon pricing shows the obvious political limits to this policy tool.
Something old, new, borrowed and blue: Doug Ford's first budget has it all
The Ontario budget is neither as dramatically geared for austerity as was feared nor as transformational as some might have hoped. The budget theme is “protecting what matters most.” That means what they spend on is a clear indication of their priorities. That priority is clear: balancing the budget. But carefully, over six years. Spread the time to spread the pain.
What the UN panel's special climate change report means for Canada
David McLaughlin of the International Institute for Sustainable Development provides key citations from the special report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to show how Canada already is, and increasingly will be, affected by global warming and climate change.
David McLaughlin: Memo to Notley - Kenney is "seriously deadly" to Alberta NDP
The campaign against the NDP government has begun. We better get ready. Jason Kenney’s Unite Alberta campaign is deadly serious. And seriously deadly, to us.