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On March 1, 2007, while launching the International Polar Year that a worldwide program that will focus on intense researches on the Arctic regions, including climate change effects, the government announced a $150 million/4 year funding for over 40 projects related to the IPY program. [59]
Fossil fuel industry interests spend many times as much on advancing their agenda in the halls of power than do ordinary citizens and environmental activists, with the former spending $2 billion in the years 2000–2016 on climate change lobbying in the United States.
Nova Scotia was the first Canadian adopter of responsible government. Some evidence exists of relationships between Nova Scotia pre-confederation premier Charles Tupper, who prior to Confederation was a strong supporter of the interest of trans-Canada railway companies, and negotiating with the General Mining Association, which had a de facto monopoly on mining.
Former Rep. Lee Zeldin, Trump's pick to lead the EPA, made $186,000 from paid op-eds and speeches. Some of those op-eds criticized climate policies and ESG. The former NY congressman also made ...
The Keeping Canada’s Economy & Jobs Growing Act, introduced in October 2011, triggered a phase-out of the per-vote subsidy from 2012-2015. [27] The amount paid out to parties decreased from approximately $2 per vote in 2012 to approximately $0.50 per vote in 2015, the final year of the subsidy. [28] Contribution limits were increased in 2014.
In 2008, debt-to-GDP ratio was 28% with a total federal debt of $458 billion. In 2010, Canada, which had a debt-to-GDP ratio of 77%, was the lowest of all the G7 economies with the United States at 98% and Japan at 227%. [42] Canada's total federal debt continued to increase after the financial crisis.
A 2012 Canadian poll, found that 32% of Canadians said they believe climate change is happening because of human activity, while 54% said they believe it's because of human activity and partially due to natural climate variation. 9% believe climate change is occurring due to natural climate variation, and only 2% said they do not believe ...
Government debt securities provide a useful measure of government debt as they are a large share of government debt (76.2% in 2020), [13] and are relatively straightforward to measure. By contrast, the second largest debt component, employee pension plan liabilities, [ 13 ] are less easy to value as they depend on employee longevity and the ...