: Yet again I read that a politician is denying knowledge of a particular decision. This happens with depressing regularity.
To a letter-writer who believes that “the rest of the country doesn’t deserve Alberta,” I would counter that Alberta wouldn’t exist without the rest of Canada.: “Why isn’t Canada an economic giant?” Good question, and one that has taken me many decades to understand. It also remains a fact that many low-carbon alternatives – electric cars, heat pumps, high-frequency mass transit, to name a few – remain unaffordable, impractical or unavailable to many Canadians. Until these become more accessible, they will feel squeezed by carbon pricing, rather than motivated to change.
for so many people. But now it seems the government is following the Century Initiative’s target of 100 million Canadians by 2100, with no clear idea of how to accommodate them all.