Merran Smith
Victoria, B.C.
About Merran Smith
Merran Smith is a fellow at Simon Fraser University’s Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue and the founder and former executive director of Clean Energy Canada. She is the president of New Economy Canada, which unites business, labour and Indigenous leaders to drive Canada’s economic transition.
How to misrepresent good climate policy
In an argument put forward to scrap the clean fuel standard, Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer claimed it was ‘a secret fuel tax’ that would increase the cost of gas by four cents.
Better energy efficiency leaves no losers
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Senior Policy Advisor Zoe Caron wraps up first week at COP21
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