Read the report here: Escaping Mandatory Oil Exports - Click here!

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APRIL 17, 2018:

As NAFTA negotiators close in on an agreement in principle, a new tri-national report I co-wrote with leading Mexican and American economists was released today:

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The report found that NAFTA’s existing regulations prevent Canada from reducing almost 1500 megatonnes of greenhouse gas emissions. This would nix any chance Canada has of meeting its Paris climate-change commitments.

Gordon Laxer's Green Paper prepared for the Alberta Institute of Agrologists - March 16, 2017

Download the PDF here!

Read the report here: Escaping Mandatory Oil Exports - Click here!

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Reports

• [Report] Obstacles to Powering Down to a Post-carbon Canada (Wilfrid Laurier University, 2011)

   

• [Report] The U.S. must go green to gain energy independence. Canada must gain independence to go green (York University, 2009)

• [Report] “Over a Barrel: Exiting from NAFTA's proportionality clause” (Gordon Laxer and John Dillon, 2008)

• [Report] Freezing in the Dark: Why Canada Needs Strategic Petroleum Reserves (2008)

• [Report] Climate Change and Energy Security for Canadians

  A chapter in Energy Security and Climate Change

  (Edited by Cy Gonick, 2007)

• [Report] Toward an Energy Security Strategy for Canada A Discussion Paper (Dave Thompson, Diana Gibson, Gordon Laxer, Parkland Institute, University of Alberta,

  December 2005)

• [Report] Popular National Sovereignty and the U.S. Empire (Journal of World-Systems Research, December 2005)