CHARLEBOIS: Canada’s costly climate gamble on food needs to end

CHARLEBOIS: Canada’s costly climate gamble on food needs to end

For years, Canadians were told that catastrophic climate scenarios justified virtually any policy imposed in the name of emissions reductions. In agriculture and food, this translated into mounting costs across the supply chain, escalating industrial carbon pricing, and a policy environment increasingly disconnected from affordability and competitiveness.

Why is food so expensive?

Experts warn that outdated climate policies are making food unaffordable for Canadians For years, Canada built climate policy around worst-case warming scenarios that drove up the cost of energy, transportation and food production. Now, some of the scientists behind the world’s leading climate models are quietly backing away from those catastrophic assumptions. But Ottawa continues imposing rising costs on farmers, processors and consumers based…

Ottawa is fighting a climate apocalypse that isn’t coming

Experts warn that outdated climate policies are making food unaffordable for Canadians The post Ottawa is fighting a climate apocalypse that isn’t coming first appeared on Calgary's Business.