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Ensuring Green Power Supplies in Ontario: Responding to Perverse Subsidies and Other Market Inequities.

Christine Elwell and Tyson Dyck. Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy. This paper explores the major government policy and legal strategies necessary to advance sustainable energy development, create jobs and protect the public interest in the newly opened electricity market in Ontario. This paper finds that a variety of institutional factors impede the adoption of low environmental impact renewable energy in the Ontario market.

Improving the Income Taxation of the Resource Sector in Canada.

Department of Finance. Advocates establishment of a common statutory rate of corporate income tax for all sectors, including consistent treatment of costs, both across resource projects and between the resource sector and other sectors of the economy to supposedly promote more efficient development of Canada’s natural resource base. Most of the proposed changes involve tax reductions to reduce the tax bite on resource projects relative to competitors such as the United States.

Government Spending on Canada's Oil and Gas Industry: Undermining Canada's Kyoto Commitment.

Amy Taylor, Matthew Bramley, and Mark Winfield, The Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development. This report, commissioned by the Climate Action Network Canada, identifies and quantifies federal government expenditure on Canada's oil and gas sector. It also investigates both federal and provincial support for oil sands developments. Useful information, though the subsidy numbers were lower than expected for resource-rich Canada. There may be programs or subsidy types that have not yet been counted.

Removing Energy Subsidies in Developing and Transition Economies.

Matthew Saunders and Karen Schneider. Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics. June 2000. Australia is only one case in this international overview of problems with subsidies. AUSTRALIA, CANADA, UNITED STATES, JAPAN, EUROPEAN UNION, FORMER SOVIET UNION, EASTERN EUROPE, CHINA, INDONESIA, KOREA, THAILAND, INDIA, SOUTH AFRICA, MIDDLE EAST, MEXICO, ARGENTINA.