Brian Dijkema

Oct 4, 2024 | brnw.ch | Ginny A. Roth |Brian Dijkema |Renze Nauta

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 of The Hub’s series sponsored by Clean Prosperity exploring the why, what, and how of conservative climate policy.

Oct 4, 2024 | brnw.ch | Ginny A. Roth |Brian Dijkema |Renze Nauta

When it comes to climate change policy in Canada these days, regular Canadians aren’t the only ones, to paraphrase Irving Kristol, getting mugged by reality. Andrew Furey, Bonnie Crombie, Jagmeet Singh, and David Eby—all Liberal and NDP leaders—are running away from the consumer carbon tax as fast as their legs can carry them. These are some of the same leaders who only a few years ago would have sold their souls for a selfie with Greta Thunberg.

Sep 16, 2024 | cardus.ca | Brian Dijkema |Shannon Joseph |Mark Cameron |Jen Gerson

Join us in Calgary on October 15th, on the eve of  Canada’s Productivity Summit hosted by the University of Calgary in collaboration with the Government of Alberta, as Cardus’ Canadian President Brian Dijkema delivers an address: “A Productive Land: Tending the Civic Soil of Canada’s Economy.”Canada is facing the wicked problem of lagging productivity. There’s no doubt that we need to attract the best economists, academics, and business leaders to solve it.

Jun 3, 2024 | thehub.ca | Michael Mandel |Brian Dijkema

Commentary 03 Jun 24 A person browses a television menu showing icons for streaming services Netflix and Amazon Prime, in a photo illustration made in Toronto, Friday, March 22, 2024. Giordano Ciampini/The Canadian Press. “You’ve seen those signs that say, ‘In emergency, break glass.’ Well, it’s time to break the glass,” warned Carolyn Rogers, senior deputy governor of the Bank of Canada, in a recent speech on Canada’s sluggish economic growth.

Jun 3, 2024 | thehub.ca | Troy Riddell |Brian Dijkema

Section 33 of the Charter should decidedly not be “off limits” in criminal justice, as a Globe and Mail op-ed recently argued. Critics of Section 33 (the notwithstanding clause) point to cases like the recent prosecution of Umar Zameer, a case involving the unintentional killing of a Toronto police officer, as evidence against the so-called “politicalization” of the courts.