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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.

4 Articles
Brian Pallister, Manitoba, Ottawa, climate change

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.
Analysis, Energy, Politics | September 3rd 2019
Doug Ford

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. 
Ontario Budget 2019
Opinion, Politics | April 11th 2019

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.
Race to a Safer World
Analysis | October 17th 2018

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.
Race to a Safer World
Opinion, Politics | July 11th 2016

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