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‘We’ve spent too long talking about targets’: Christopher Ragan on the economics and politics of carbon taxes

People cross-country ski in the cold weather as an industrial plant is shown in the back ground in Toronto on Friday, Feb. 4, 2022. Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press.

Christopher Ragan, economist and founding director for the Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill University, discusses the current carbon tax debate, what he thinks it gets wrong, and Canada’s policy options in a post-carbon tax world.

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