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Marc Lee
Marc Lee is a Senior Economist at the CCPA’s BC Office. In addition to tracking federal and provincial budgets and economic trends, Marc has published on a range of topics from poverty and inequality to globalization and international trade to public services and regulation. Marc is Co-Director of the Climate Justice Project, a research partnership with UBC’s School of Community and Regional Planning that examines the links between climate change policies and social justice. Follow Marc on Twitter
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Time to get on board with free public transit
The BC Green Party made the first big splash of the 2024 provincial election campaign with a major commitment to expand public transit, including a…
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Cedar LNG: Chronicles of a petro-state in the age of climate change
A final investment decision in June 2024 by Cedar LNG highlights the challenges and contradictions of BC’s climate and energy policies. For the BC government,…
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How BC’s oil and gas industry sidestepped carbon pricing
When BC first introduced a carbon tax in 2008 the point was to apply it to all emissions causing climate change, but start at a…
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Bolder moves needed for taxing the rich
Even with the 2024 change, the income from buying and selling assets will be taxed less than from working.
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Canada’s shift to a more regressive tax system, 2004 to 2022
The SPSD is a non-confidential, statistically representative database of individuals in their family context, with enough information on each individual to compute taxes paid to…
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Time for a new public transit investment plan
Imagine being able to get from almost anywhere in BC to anywhere else on public transit, as one might in Europe or Asia. Or visitors…
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Connecting BC: A 10-year vision for public transit throughout BC
Let’s not keep BC riders waiting. It’s time to invest in the transit British Columbians deserve.
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Connecting BC
After years of neglect and privatization, today’s transit system in BC is plagued with overcrowding, delays and big gaps in service. The good news is…
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Knives out for Clean BC
It’s taken sixteen years of incremental policy change in BC but you might have noticed that climate policies are starting to take hold. Electric vehicles…
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Beleaguered federal government unlikely to turn the page with restrained fiscal update
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland talks up housing and affordability while austerity looms
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What would it take to meet Canada’s 2030 climate targets?
Adapted from the CCPA’s fall 2023 submission to Canada’s Net-Zero Advisory Body by Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood & Marc Lee When Canada first signed the Paris…
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How Canada can meet its 2030 climate targets
Adapted from the CCPA’s fall 2023 submission to Canada’s Net-Zero Advisory Body by Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood & Marc Lee
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