INSIGHTS
Politics, Policy, and Future Impacts: A Year-End Guide for Canada
As we approach the end of 2024, Canadian businesses face pivotal challenges from political shifts, regulatory changes, and cross-border dynamics. With a new U.S. administration, we can expect possible impacts from evolving U.S. trade policies, economic priorities, and climate commitments.
EPR Across Canada
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is an environmental policy approach that holds producers of consumer goods accountable for the collection and management of their products and packaging at end-of-life. It shifts the physical and financial responsibility of recovering and recycling resources (used products and packaging) away from local governments and onto the industries that are responsible for putting those resources on market.
Canada's Next Steps on Oil & Gas Emissions: Cap-and-Trade Unveiled
Yesterday, the Government of Canada unveiled the anticipated draft regulations to limit greenhouse gas emissions from oil and gas production via a cap-and-trade system. The oil & gas emissions cap and trade is a component of the 2030 Emissions Reductions Plan.
Moving Towards An Integrated Energy Plan: Ontario Government Releases Energy Policy Visioning Document
Earlier today, the Minister of Energy and Electrification announced the government’s much anticipated energy policy vision paper: Ontario’s Affordable Energy Future: The Pressing Case for More Power.
Government of Ontario Removing Barriers to Housing Connections
Earlier today, the Government of Ontario announced measures that are intended to remove barriers that slow the construction of new homes and businesses and make it easier and more affordable to connect to the electricity system – or connections colloquially known as “the last mile”.
New Democratic Party Pulls Out of Supply and Confidence Agreement with Liberal Government
In a video posted to social media this afternoon, New Democratic Party Leader Jagmeet Singh announced that he is formally terminating the supply and confidence agreement (SACA) his party made with the governing Liberals in March 2022.
