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This has led to fewer summer smog days and healthier communities in recent years. While doing this, we are also the source of thousands of jobs throughout the province and billions of investment into our economy and infrastructure. We recognize we are part of a balanced, clean supply mix and we are committed to continuing to do our part to meet the energy needs of families and businesses. Clean. Low cost. Nuclear energy produces zero carbon Ontario nuclear is emissions, keeping Ontario’s air clean 30% cheaper than the average for a healthier future. cost of electricity. - Intergovermental Panel on Climate Change - Ontario Energy Board Jobs. Innovative. 18,000 high-paying direct and Bruce Power’s reactors produce indirect jobs per year. $4 billion in Cobalt-60, which sterilizes 40% of the overall annual economic benefit. world’s single-use medical devices. - Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters - cleannuclearpowersafehospitals.com www.facebook.com/BrucePowerNGS www.youtube.com/user/BrucePower4You @Bruce_Power @brucepowerngs 2 In This Issue From the Editor / L. Ian MacDonald 4 Clean Energy Greg Lyle Canadian Politics and 5 Reducing Carbon: Are Canadians Willing to Pay for Public Policy Their Good Intentions? Dan Woynillowicz, Merran Smith and Clare Demerse EDITOR 8 From Resources to Resourcefulness: The Promise of Clean Energy L. Ian MacDonald [email protected] 11 Dan Gagnier ASSOCIATE EDITOR Sustainable Energy: A Goal in Need of Consistent Support Lisa Van Dusen Candice Bergen [email protected] 14 The Other National Sport: Pipeline Debates CONTRIBUTING WRITERS 16 Elizabeth May Thomas S. Axworthy The Move Away From Fossil Fuels Has Begun Andrew Balfour, Yaroslav Baran Derek H. Burney, Catherine Cano 18 Donna Kennedy-Glans Margaret Clarke, Celine Cooper Taking the Pulse of Albertans on Energy and Climate Change Susan Delacourt, Fen Osler Hampson Derek Nighbor Daniel Gagnier, Martin Goldfarb 19 Canada’s Forest Sector: Part of the Climate Change Solution Patrick Gossage, Brad Lavigne Kevin Lynch, Jeremy Kinsman 22 Nathalie Pilon Andrew MacDougall, Velma McColl An Energy Primer for Canada: People, Technology and the Economy David McLaughlin, David Mitchell John Barrett Don Newman, Geoff Norquay 24 Robin V. Sears, Gil Troy Canada Can be Cleaner, and Stronger, with Nuclear Anthony Wilson-Smith 27 Guest Column / Kevin Kelly WEB DESIGN Nuclear Power Helps Sustain a Clean Energy System Nicolas Landry 28 Yves Desjardins-Siciliano [email protected] Modernizing Passenger Rail: A Generational Imperative SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR Grace MacDonald CANADA AND THE WORLD [email protected] Robin Sears GRAPHIC DESIGN & PRODUCTION 39 NDP Crossroads: Leadership and the Leap Monica Thomas [email protected] Brad Lavigne 43 The Battle for the Future of Progressive Politics in Canada Policy Column / Don Newman Policy is published six times 44 Back to the Future annually by LPAC Ltd. The contents are copyrighted, but may be 45 Dale Eisler reproduced with permission and Saskatchewan’s Seinfeldian election: How Brad Wall Won a attribution in print, and viewed free Campaign About Nothing of charge at the Policy home page at Jeremy Kinsman www.policymagazine.ca. 48 Too Big to Fail? Europe in a Perfect Storm policymagazine 51 Kevin Lynch The Other One Per Cent Problem: Using Innovation to Spur Growth @policy_mag 55 Patrick Gossage Printed and distributed by St. Joseph Tackling Inequality: The Under-Explored GAI Option Communications, 1165 Kenaston Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 1A4 SPRING LIST Special thanks to our sponsors 57 Review by Geoff Norquay and advertisers. Shopping for Votes: How Politicians Choose Us and We Choose Them By Susan Delacourt Cover image courtesy of ABB Canada Policy WOOD: YOUR CLIMATE FRIENDLY CHOICE Learn how wood products are part of the solution to climate change at: FPAc.cA/woodbuilding The ForesT ProducTs AssociATion oF cAnAdA @FPAc_APFc · /FPAc.APFc Spring 2016 Policy ad-v1.indd 1 2016-04-14 7:58 PM 4 From the Editor / L. Ian MacDonald Clean Energy elcome to our special issue tion away from fossil fuels. From Cal- lowed its policy agenda to be hijacked on clean energy, a compel- gary, lawyer and former MLA Donna by the Leap Manifesto. Our Robin V. W ling public policy theme Kennedy-Glans has been taking the Sears, former national director of the for Canada in which the environment pulse of Albertans on climate change NDP, writes of a party at a historic and development are two sides of the through ViewpointsAB. leadership and policy crossroads. Mul- cair’s leadership was undone by the same coin. Forest Products Association of Canada “risk aversion of the 2015 campaign.” For openers, Greg Lyle of Innovative CEO Derek Nighbor writes: “By fol- Research shares the results of an ex- lowing climate-sensitive practices, Former senior campaign adviser Brad clusive poll for Policy on Canadian properly managed forests can be a ma- Lavigne asks “Whither the NDP?” and public opinion on climate change. jor contributor to an improved Cana- columnist Don Newman says the par- While eight in 10 Canadians are very dian climate management system.” ty is going back to the future with the or somewhat concerned about climate Leap crowd, turning the clock back 45 From the electricity industry, ABB change, he writes that “it ranks well years to the Waffle movement. Canada President Nathalie Pilon down the list of issues they regard as writes: “By now it should be obvious From Regina, author and former col- most important.” Canadians in vari- that Canada’s goals for the economy umnist Dale Eisler dissects a provincial ous provinces also have decidedly and the environment are predicated campaign in which Premier Brad Wall mixed views on carbon taxes. They on a fundamental change in our en- and his Saskatchewan party easily won might be concerned about climate ergy supply chain.” its third consecutive majority, win- change, but not necessarily prepared ning 51 out of 61 seats in the legisla- to pay to do something about reduc- From Canada’s nuclear industry, Ca- ture and 62 per cent of the vote. ing greenhouse gas emissions. nadian Nuclear Association President John Barrett notes the role of nuclear After the Paris and Brussels terror at- From Clean Energy Canada, Dan Woy- as the fourth cleanest renewable after tacks and the massive migration of nillowicz, Merran Smith and Clare De- hydro, tidal and wind.