Etienne Rainville

Posts by Etienne Rainville:

There’s no reason for Trump to put the brakes on Canada’s low-carbon economic growth

Originally published in The Hub. Canada has a major economic opportunity in the global low-carbon economy, if it gets its climate and energy policies right. Those policies should be informed by principles like leveraging the ingenuity of markets and free enterprise, limited government, and respect for provincial jurisdiction. The following article is the latest installment

Want to reduce industrial emissions? Get rid of interprovincial trade barriers

By Clean Prosperity Director of Federal Government Relations Etienne Rainville and Director of Policy and Strategy Brendan Frank. Originally posted in The Hub. Since Confederation, unnecessary internal trade barriers have hindered Canada’s economy. Booze is a famous example, but these barriers bog us down in sectors as disparate as electricity, labour, and transportation, among others.