Merran Smith
Victoria, B.C.
About Merran Smith
Merran Smith is a fellow at Simon Fraser University’s Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue and the founder and former executive director of Clean Energy Canada. She is the president of New Economy Canada, which unites business, labour and Indigenous leaders to drive Canada’s economic transition.
Clean energy transition brings social and economic rewards
While federal and provincial policymakers focus on recent changes in the national carbon pricing policy, they must remember that Canadian companies face a competitive investment environment because of the industrial policies of our two largest trading partners.
There is only one path to long-term energy security and affordability: clean energy
New analysis from Clean Energy Canada calculated the total ownership costs of equivalent electric and gas cars and found that EV versions always end up cheaper than their gas counterparts, despite their higher sticker price.
Canada’s election comes at a critical time in the climate fight
The Liberals, NDP and Greens all aim to build on Canada’s climate efforts. They want to increase both ambition and action — and one party, the Conservatives, wants to go backward, write Clean Energy Canada's Merran Smith and Sarah Petrevan.
Forget Keystone — Canada needs a cross-border clean energy economy
It was former prime minister Pierre Trudeau who once described sharing a border with America as akin to sleeping with an elephant. “No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast,” he said, “one is affected by every twitch and grunt.”
Let’s come out of COVID-19 with a new economy
Canada’s traditionally strong oil and gas sector will never return to its halcyon boom days of the early 2000s. We need to rebuild the economy we want: a cleaner, resilient one.
Pundits' whataboutism threatens Canada's climate progress
A false equivalency has been drawn between the Conservative and Liberal climate plans, which couldn’t be more different.
We must make Canada's power grid even cleaner
If we’re to hit our climate targets and decarbonize Canada by 2050, we’ll need more electricity. After all, electrification — that is, getting everything onto our increasingly clean power grid — is the ribbon that ties all of our climate efforts together.