The Department of Finance in a confidential Access To Information memo says energy consumers in provinces without a legislated carbon tax will pay at least $600 million in higher fuel costs this year. Federal legislation mandating the tax nationwide is due this spring: “The impact on consumers and businesses will depend.”
Research for the Privy Council Office has uncovered a deep gloom among Canadians over wellbeing of the next generation. Staff in Access To Information memos expressed puzzlement over the data: “Why do Canadians say the previous generation had a better quality of life than they have?”
The Canadian Coast Guard is bracing for another federal audit on the state of oil spill preparedness. The Commissioner of the Environment is to publish a report this fall, the third performance audit of its kind in eight years: “We are in charge.”
Two Canadian brewers are in a Federal Court trademark battle over the right to sell a nice cool beer. Trademark disputes between breweries are commonplace: “We need to bring these claims forward.”
