Here
is the link to an article by John Geddes "Building a consensus on climate change? Not so easy, after all", Ottawa bureau chief at Maclean’s, who does a
good job of distilling my point that while carbon pricing is the most
economically efficient GHG reduction policy, it is willful blindness to assume
that economic efficiency is the only criterion when trying to implement climate
policy. If regulations are more politically acceptable, especially for doing
the heavy lifting, then put some intelligence (even economic intelligence) into
designing market-oriented regulations that are relatively economically
efficient.
One might notice by the way, that in the
first two weeks of March Trudeau failed to get provinces to agree to even a
small carbon price (that would have virtually no effect on emissions - such as
$15 or $30 per tonne of CO2)) and then went to Washington and quickly signed an
agreement with Obama to dramatically reduce methane emissions from the oil and
gas industry. No mention of emissions pricing. It will be
regulation."