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An Open Letter to the Leaders of Canada’s Federal Political Parties
From economists teaching in Canadian colleges and universities

(La version française suit ci-bas)

One of the few issues on which most economists agree is the need for public policy to protect the environment. Why so much agreement? Because in the absence of policy, individuals generally don’t take the environmental consequences of their actions into account, and the result is “market failure” and excessive levels of pollution. Environmental degradation diminishes the quality of life for all of us. And without a healthy environment, we can’t sustain a healthy economy. We, the undersigned, have therefore joined together to express our shared views on effective policies to address climate change.

We are non-partisan and will undoubtedly be supporting different parties in this election. Our goal is not to criticize or praise one party or another, but rather to offer our collective views, as economists, to help inform public debate on these matters at a critical time – during a federal election campaign.

What Needs to be Done
While Canada clearly cannot solve the climate change problem on its own, we need to do our part, and this requires immediate and substantive action by our federal government. We make this statement fully acknowledging the importance of other issues to Canadian voters, such as the turmoil in financial markets and our military involvement in Afghanistan. But climate scientists state that we bear the costs of our lack of action on carbon reduction on a daily basis, and within a few decades the impacts of climate change could be truly catastrophic—unless we take action now. Even those who are not quite convinced by today’s scientific evidence need to consider the costs of not acting now. If they turn out to be wrong, and we wait for complete certainty, it will be too late.

All the major political parties have stated that they understand the need to act on carbon emissions. The question then becomes what action to take. Any action (including inaction) will have substantial economic consequences and , thus, economics lies at the heart of the debate on climate change.

With this letter, we hope to help put the debate on a more solid economic foundation by offering the following set of principles upon which we believe climate change policy should be founded.

Canada needs to act on climate change now.
Any substantive action will involve economic costs. Any effective carbon-reduction policy will necessarily entail changing the way we live and do business. All forms of regulation, taxes, or markets for the exchange of emission permits that have a significant impact on greenhouse gas emissions will affect the prices of carbon-intensive goods.
These economic impacts cannot be an excuse for inaction. Climate scientists are clear on the costs of inaction, and that these costs will accumulate well beyond the current business cycle, possibly at an accelerating rate. Active and effective climate change policy should be seen as an investment that will yield pay-offs for ourselves, our children and our grandchildren. Given the need to act, the question then becomes which policies would obtain the carbon reduction goals we establish with the lowest cost and greatest level of fairness.
Pricing carbon is the best approach from an economic perspective. Approaches to reaching any particular climate change goal that involve pricing carbon, such as carbon taxes and cap and trade systems, involve less economic damage to businesses and families than the alternatives. Carbon pricing is good for several reasons:
Pricing allows each business and family to choose the response that is best and most efficient for them. Firms and families will differ greatly in the options they have for reducing their use of carbon, as well as in the value they place on carbon-generating activities. Price mechanisms give everyone the incentive to reduce their carbon use, but to do so to the degree and in the way that is best for them. This is the main reason that pricing policies are the lowest-cost way to meet our climate change goals.
Pricing induces innovation. As the price of carbon increases, users of carbon intensive goods will demand alternatives. This will induce innovations in the goods and services that are produced, how those goods and services are produced, and the way people live. By moving relatively early in terms of climate policy, Canada has an opportunity to innovate and sell new technologies to the rest of the world.
Carbon is almost certainly under-priced right now. In a fully efficient price system, the price we pay for a product would reflect the full costs of producing and using it, including the costs to the environment. Prices do not currently reflect those environmental costs. When carbon is under-priced, consumers and businesses tend to use too much of it. Policies that increase the price of carbon provide the proper incentives for consumers and businesses when they are making their investment and consumption decisions.
Regulation tends to be the most expensive way to meet a given climate change goal. Under regulation, businesses and consumers are mandated to take particular actions related to carbon use (e.g., use a particular technology or stay under mandated levels with no option to trade carbon emission rights). As a result, they are not given the choice of adjusting in the way that is best for them. Regulation therefore increases the costs of achieving carbon reduction compared to when pricing mechanisms such as a carbon tax or a cap and trade system are used. Furthermore, while regulations imposed on firms may appear to be so far removed from the typical consumer that they might think they will not bear these costs, this is not true. Those increased costs will be passed on to consumers due to normal market forces. There may be circumstances when regulation is the appropriate policy tool, but in most cases it is the most economically damaging.
A carbon tax has the advantage of providing certainty in the price of carbon. Under a carbon tax, a charge is added to the sale of all fuels according to the carbon emitted when they are used. With a well-designed carbon tax strategy, the tax will be introduced gradually and increased in pre-announced increments until the environmental target is reached . This provides investors with a degree of certainty that is good for business, and allows consumers to make adjustments knowing what is coming. The exact impact of the price increase on the quantity of carbon emitted can be predicted, although with some margin of error. A carbon tax thus involves choosing price certainty but accepting some uncertainty in total carbon emissions.
A cap and trade system provides certainty on the quantity of carbon emitted, but not on the price of carbon and can be a highly complex policy to implement. In a cap and trade system, an upper limit (cap) is set on carbon emissions, usually for a particular industry. The government must then make a decision about whether to auction the permits (known as allowances), requiring each firm to buy enough allowances to cover its total emissions. Normal market forces then determine the price of these allowances such that supply equals demand. A cap and trade system with auctioned allowances then acts much like a carbon tax. The price cannot, however, be predicted in advance. Alternatively, the government can issue allowances to firms without charge, then open up the market for trading. In this situation, there is both the uncertainty about the price and potential for significant problems to emerge in the market based on how the allowances are initially allocated. The Emission Trading System in the European Union began by distributing too many allowances and as a result the price fell to close to zero, rendering the policy ineffective. Thus, while a cap and trade system can in principle be equivalent to a carbon tax in terms of its ultimate impacts on the price and quantity of carbon, and will generally give more certainty in meeting environmental targets if the allowances are properly chosen, the price uncertainty in the cap and trade system generally implies a worse environment for long-range decision-making on the part of businesses and consumers.
Policies that impose costs on producers (big or small) affect consumers. Some voters seem to think that policies like cap and trade, which apply directly to producers, have less impact on the prices they face than carbon taxes, where the impact can be seen immediately. In fact, voters would do better to assume that all such policies would, ultimately, affect the prices they pay. Indeed, since the goal of these policies is to change what we buy, policies applied to producers must affect the prices faced by consumers if they are to meet environmental goals. The argument that a policy capable of reducing carbon emissions will only affect producers is without economic merit.
Price mechanisms can be regressive and our policy should address this. Like most taxes on goods and services that are widely consumed, carbon pricing will have a larger negative effect on lower income Canadian families than others. As we have stated, the same is true of regulation since regulation also raises costs of production and those increased costs will ultimately show up in higher prices. Thus, whatever policy is used, a complete policy should include some element of redistribution to address the impacts it will have on the least well off in our society. Not only will the costs to consumers ultimately be lower under a carbon tax or auctioned emission permits, these latter policies also have the potential to bring revenue into the government that can be used to help offset any inordinate hardship experienced among the least well-off. This is not true of regulatory approaches, or of a cap and trade system in which the allowances are allocated without charge to emitters.
A pricing mechanism can allow other taxes to be reduced and provide an opportunity to improve the tax system. With the revenue brought in from a carbon tax or from auctioning the allowances in a cap and trade system, governments can provide general cuts in income and/or corporate taxes. Such systems can be “tax neutral”, meaning the increased burden of the carbon taxes is exactly offset by tax reductions elsewhere, but this result will depend on the details of the particular policy adopted. Under such a plan, lighter carbon users will tend to pay lower taxes overall, while heavier polluters will pay more, corresponding to their greater negative effects on the environment. At the same time, all individuals will continue to have an incentive to reduce their carbon emissions when prices include the cost of their carbon usage. If the tax redesign is done thoughtfully, Canada could move toward an overall tax system, which imposes fewer burdens on the economy and, as a result, leads to a more productive economy for all Canadians.
In closing, we ask you, the leaders of Canada’s major political parties, to immediately begin a substantive public debate, grounded in the generally accepted economic principles outlined above, on the best ways to address climate change. Our collective future is truly in your hands.

Names and titles of signers

Abbott, Michael, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Queen’s University.
Adamowicz, W.L. (Vic), Professor, Department of Rural Economy, University of Alberta.
Adshade, Marina, Professor, Department of Economics, Dalhousie University.
Ahsan, Seyd M., Professor, Department of Economics, Concordia University.
Alger, Ingela, Associate Professor, Economics Department, Carleton University.
Allan, John R., Vice-President Emeritus and Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Regina.
Allen, Jeremiah, Emeritus professor, Economics Department, University of Lethbridge.
Alvarez-Cuadrado, Francisco, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, McGill University.
Anderson, Siwan, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of British Columbia.
Antweiler, Werner, Associate Professor, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia.
Arvin, Mak, Professor of Economics, Economics Department, Trent University.
Atallah, Gamal, Associate Professor , Department of Economics, University of Ottawa.
Ayar, Musa, Post-Doctoral Fellow / Instructor, Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario.
Aydede, Yigit, Department of Economics, Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary’s University.
Barham, Vicky, Chair, Department of Economics (Directrice du département de science économique), Department of Economics, University of Ottawa.
Barla, Philippe, Professeur, Département d’économique, Université Laval.
Beach, Charles, Professor and Director of the John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy, Department of Economics, Queen’s University. Past editor of Canadian Public Policy.
Beaudry, Paul, Professor, Department of Economics, University of British Columbia. CRC Chair.
Beaulieu, Eugene, Associate Professor, Economics, University of Calgary.
Berkok, Urgurhan, Assistant Adjunct Professor, Department of Economics, Queen’s University.
Bernard, Jean-Thomas, Professeur titulaire, département d’économique, Université Laval.
Boadway, Robin, David Chadwick Smith Chair and Professor, Department of Economics, Queen’s University. Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Past President of the Canadian Economics Association.
Boardman, Anthony, Van Dusen Professor of Business Administration, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia.
Boucher, Nathalie, Executive Director, Centre for Data and Analysis in Transportation, Department of Economics, Université Laval.
Bramoullé, Yann , professeur adjoint, département d’économique, université Laval.
Brian Krauth, Associate Professor and Undergraduate Chair, Economics Department, Simon Fraser University.
Brochu, Pierre, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Ottawa.
Brown, Laura, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Manitoba.
Brox, James A., Professor (past chair), Department of Economics, University of Waterloo. President-elect, International Banking, Economics and Finance Association (formerly NAEFA).
Bruce, Christopher, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Calgary.
Bruneau, Joel F., Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Chair, Department of Economics, University of Saskatchewan.
Bucovetsky, Sam, Professor, Department of Economics, Faculty of Arts, York University.
Burbidge, John, Professor and Chair, Department of Economics, University of Waterloo.
Burton, Peter, Professor, Department of Economics, Dalhousie University.
Canton, Joan, Professeur adjoint, Département de science économique, Université d’Ottawa.
Carmichael, Calume, School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University.
Celik, Gorkem, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of British Columbia.
Chapple, Clive, Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of British Columbia.
Childs, Stephen, Special MESA Research Assistant, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa.
Cockburn, John, Professeur associé, CIRPÉE, Département d’économique, Université Laval. codirecteur, Le Réseau de Recherche sur les Politiques Économiques et la Pauvreté (PEP).
Coe, Patrick, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Carleton University.
Compton, Janice, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Manitoba.
Compton, Ryan, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Manitoba.
Contoyannis, Paul, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, McMaster University. Associate Editor of the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series A).
Cottrell, Thomas, Associate Professor, Finance Area/Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary.
Crabbé, Philippe, Professor Emeritus, Environmental and Natural Resources Economics, University of Ottawa.
Cyrus, Teresa, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Dalhousie University.
Dasgupta, Swapan, Professor, Department of Economics, Dalhousie University.
Davies, James, Professor, Department of Economics Chair, Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario. current editor of Canadian Public Policy, past Chairperson of Department of Economics, 1999-2001.
Davis, Alfred H. R., Associate Professor of Finance, Queen’s School of Business, Queen’s University.
Day, Kathleen, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Ottawa.
Decaluwé, Bernard, Professseur Titulaire, Département d’Économique.
Deri Armstrong, Catherine, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Ottawa.
Dewees, Donald, Professor, Department of Economics and Faculty of Law, University of Toronto.
Ding, Weili, Assistant Professor, School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University.
Dissou, Yazid, Professeur agrégé, Science économique, Université d’Ottawa.
Dixon, Jay, Professeur adjoint/Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, Université d’Ottawa.
Dodds, Stefan, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Carleton University.
Dooley, Martin, Department of Economics, McMaster University.
Dore, Mohammed, Department of Economics, Brock University.
Douglas, Catherine, Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of British Columbia.
Dow, Gregory K., Professor, Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University. (past chair, department of economics, SFU).
Duclos, Jean-Yves, Professeur titulaire/Professor, Département d’économique, Université Laval.
Dufour, Jean-Marie, William Dow Chair in Economics, Department of Economics, McGill University. Order of Canada, O.Q., Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Past President, Canadian Economics Association and Société canadienne de science économique, Bank of Canada Research Fellow, Guggenheim Fellow, KiIllam Prize 2006.
Eaton, Curtis, University Professor and Professor, Department of Economics, University of Calgary. Past President of the Canadian Economics Association
Echevarria, Christina, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Saskatchewan.
Eckert, Heather, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Alberta.
Emery, Herb, Svare Professor in Health Economics, Department of Economics and Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary.
Engineer, Merwan, Professor, Department of Economcis, University of Victoria.
Essaji, Azim, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University.
Eswaran, Mukesh, Professor, Department of Economics, University of British Columbia.
Evans, Robert, Professor, Department of Economics, University of British Columbia.
Farnworth, Michael, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of New Brunswick.
Feehan, James P., Professor, Department of Economics, Memorial University.
Ferrer, Ana, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Univesrity of Calgary.
Finnie, Ross, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa.
Fisher, Gordon, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics, Concordia University.
Forsdyke, Ruth, Assistant Professor, Economics Department, Dalhousie University.
Fortin, Bernard, Professeur Titulaire, Département d’économique, Université Laval. CIRPÉE et CIRANO, Société Royale du Canada, Ancien président de la Société canadienne de sciences économiques.
Fortin, Nicole, Professor, Department of Economics, University of British Columbia.
Fortin, Pierre , Professeur, Département des sciences économiques, École des sciences de la gestion, Université du Québec à Montréal.
Francois, Patrick, Professor, Department of Economics, University of British Columbia.
Frankman, Myron, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, McGill University. Past President, Canadian Association for the Study of International Development.
Friesen, Jane, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University.
Gaisford, Jim, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Calgary.
Galbraith, John W., Professor, Department of Economics, McGill University.
Galdo, Jose, Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University.
Gallipoli, Giovanni, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of British Columbia.
Gaudet, Gérard, Professeur, Département de sciences économiques, Université de Montréal. MSRC (Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada), Ancien président de la Canadian Economic Association/Association canadienne d’économique, Ancien président de la Société canadienne de science économique.
Georges, Patrick, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa.
Glazebrook, Trish, Chair/Full Professor, International Development Studies, Dalhousie University.
Gobert, Karine , professeure adjointe, Département d’économique, Université de Sherbrooke.
Gonzalez, Francisco M., Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Calgary.
Gordon, Stephen, Professeur titulaire, Département d’économique, Université Laval.
Gray, David, Associate Professor / Professor agrégé, Dept. of economics / dépt. des sciences économiques, University of Ottawa / l’Université d’Ottawa.
Gray, John, Senior Scholar, Department of Economics, University of Manitoba.
Green, David, Professor, Department of Economics, University of British Columbia.
Gross, Dominique, Professor, Graduate Public Policy Program and School of International Studies, Simon Fraser University.
Gugl, Elisabeth, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Victoria.
Gulati, Sumeet, Assistant Professor, Food and Resource Economics and Forest Resources Management, University of British Columbia.
Gunderson, Morley, Professor and CIBC Chair of Youth Employment, University of Toronto. Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Former Director of the Centre for Industrial Relations.
Hanel, Petr, Professeur titulaire, Département d’économique, Université de Sherbrooke.
Henry, Marc, Professeur Agrégé, Département de sciences économiques, Université de Montréal.
Hewitt, Gary, Lecturer, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia.
Hickey, Ross, Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, University of British Columbia.
Hill, Roderick, Professor of Economics, Department of Social Science, Univerisity of New Brunswick.
Hollis, Aidan, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Calgary.
Horbulyk, Ted, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Calgary.
Horton, Susan, Professor of Economics, School of Business and Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University.
Hum, Derek, Professor, Dept of Economics, University of Manitoba.
Hurley, Jeremiah, Professor, Department of Economics, McMaster University.
Insley, Margaret, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Waterloo.
Irvine, Ian , Professor, Department of Economics, Concordia University.
Iscan, Talan, Professor, Department of Economics, Dalhousie University.
Jaccard, Mark, Professor, School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University.
Jacks, David S., Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University. Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research.
Jackson, Ken, Lecturer, Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University.
Janmaat, John, Department of Economics, History, Philosophy, Political Science and Sociology, UBC Okanagan.
Johnson, David, Professor of Economics, School of Business and Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University.
Johnson, Susan, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University.
Johri, Alok, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, McMaster University.
Jones, Stephen, Professor, Department of Economics, McMaster University.
Kaliski, Stephan F., Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics, Queen’s University. Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, past presidence CES
Kennedy, Peter, Professor Emeritus, Economics Department, Simon Fraser University.
Kesselman, Jon, Professor, Public Policy Program, Simon Fraser University. CRC Chair
Khaleghi Moghadam, Arian, Faculty, Department of Economics, Brock University.
Khan, Hashmat, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Carleton University.
Knowler, Duncan, Associate Professor, School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University.
Léger, Pierre Thomas, Professeur agrégé/Associate Professor, Institut d’économie appliquée/Institute of Applied Economics, HEC Montréal, CIRANO et/and CIRPÉE.
Lacroix, Guy, Professeur titulaire (Full Professor), Département d’économique, université Laval.
Laidler,David, Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario. Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, past President of Canadian Economics Association.
Lamarche, Jean-François, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Brock University.
Landon, Stuart, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Alberta.
Lantz, Van, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, University of New Brunswick.
Lanyi, Michael, Academic Assistant, Department of Economics, University of Lethbridge.
Laszlo, Sonia, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, McGill University.
Leach, Andrew, Assistant Professor, School of Business, University of Alberta. CIRANO, CABREE Affiliated Resarcher
Leclerc, André, titulaire de la Chaire des caisses populaires acadiennes en gestion des coopératives et professeur d’économique, Université de Moncton.
Lee, Sangohoon, Assistant Professor, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia.
Lefebvre, Pierre, Professeur/Professor, Dept. Sciences économiques/Economics. École des sciences de la gestion (School of Management), Université du Québec à Montréal/UQAM.
Lehrer, Steven, Assistant Professor, School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University.
Lemieux, Thomas, Professor, Department of Economics, University of British Columbia.
Leo, Teng Wah, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, St. Francis Xavier University.
Lethbridge, Lynn, Research Associate, Dalhousie University.
Lewchuk, Wayne, Professor, Economics & Labour Studies, McMaster University.
Li, Xianghong, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, York University.
Lindsey, Robin, professor, Department of Economics, University of Alberta.
Lipsey, Richard G., Emeritus Professor Economics, Simon Fraser University. Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Order of Canada, Past President Atlantic Economic Society and Canadian Economics Association, Fellow of the Econometric Society, former Fellow and Project Director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.
Lluis, Stephanie, Assistant Professor, Economics Department, University of Waterloo.
Love, David R.F., Associate Professor, Brock University.
Lukert, Martin, Professor, Department of Rural Economy, University of Alberta. Killam Annual Professor.
MacPhail, Fiona, Associate Professor, Economics Program, University of Northern British Columbia.
Makdissi, Paul, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Ottawa.
Marmer, Vadim, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of British Columbia.
Martinello, Felice, Professor, Department of Economics, Brock University.
McDonald, Ted, Professor, Department of Economics, University of New Brunswick.
McIntosh, James, Professor of Economics, Concordia University. Research Professor, The Danish National Centre For Social Research, Copenhagen.
McKenzie, Ken, Professor and Head, Department of Economics, University of Calgary.
McMillan, Melville, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Alberta.
Merrigan, Philip, Professeur titulaire, département des sciences économiques, ESG, Université du Québec à Montréal.
Mestelman, Stuart, Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, McMaster University.
Moffatt, Mike, Lecturer, Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario.
Mongrain, Steve, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University.
Montmarquette, Claude, Professeur associé, Département des sciences économiques, Université de Montréal. Titulaire de la chaire Bell – Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec en économie expérimentale de l’Université de Montréal.
Moore, Lyndon, Département de sciences économiques, Université de Montréal.
Moore, Lyndon, Département de sciences économiques, Université de Montréal.
Moran, Kevin, Professeur adjoint, Département d’économique, Université Laval.
Morin, Louis-Philippe, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Ottawa.
Muller, Andrew, Professor Emeritus, Economics, McMaster University.
Myatt, Tony, Professor, Department of Economics, University of New Brunswick Fredricton.
Nagarajan, K.V., Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Laurentian University.
Olewiler, Nancy, Professor, Department of Economics and Public Policy Program, Simon Fraser University.
Neary, Hugh, Associate Head of the Department of Economics, Department of Economics, University of British Columbia.
Neill, Christine, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University.
Nemetz, Peter, Professor, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia.
Notten, Geranda, École Supérieure d’Affaires Publiques et Internationales / Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, Université d’Ottawa / University of Ottawa.
Oreopoulos, Philip, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of British Columbia.
Ouellette, Pierre, Professeur, Département des sciences économiques, École des sciences de la gestion, Université du Québec à Montréal.
Pallage Stéphane, Directeur, Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal.
Pang, Ke, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University.
Pendakur, Krishna , Professor of Economics, Simon Fraser University.
Petrunia, Robert, Assistant Professor, Economics, Lakehead University.
Podhorsky, Andrea, Lecturer, Department of Economics, York University.
Poitevin, Michel, Directeur, Sciences économiques, Université de Montréal.
Power, Simon, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Carleton University.
Ragan, Christopher, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, McGill University.
Redish, Angela, Professor, Department of Economics, University of British Columbia.
Richards, John, Professor, Public Policy Program, Simon Fraser University.
Riddell, W. Craig, Professor, Department of Economics, University of British Columbia. Past President of the Canadian Economics Association.
Roberts, Joanne, Associate Professor, University of Calgary.
Robinson, David, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Laurentian University.
Roland, Michel, Professeur agrégé, Département d’économique, Université Laval.
Ronald C. LeBlanc, professeur, Directeur, Département d’économie, Université de Moncton.
Ross, Thomas, Professor, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia.
Roy, Noel, Professor and Head, Department of Economics, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Rumsey, John, Associate Professor, Faculty of Management, Dalhousie University.
Rus, Horatiu, Assistant Professor, Economics Department, University of Waterloo.
Safaei, Jalil, Associate Professor, Economics Program, University of Northern British Columbia.
Sakata, Shinichi, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of British Columbia.
Sawler, James, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Mount Saint Vincent University.
Scarth, William, Professor of Economics, McMaster Universuty.
Schaller, Huntley, Professor, Department of Economics, Carleton University. Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, Princeton University.
Schirle, Tammy, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University.
Schmitt, Nicolas, Professor, Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University.
Schott, Stephan, Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University,. Innovation, Science and Environment Concentration Leader.
Schwartz, Saul, Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University.
Seccareccia, Mario, Full Professor, Department of Economics, University of Ottawa.
Sentance, Jim, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Economics, University of Prince Edward Island.
Shannon, Mike, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Lakehead University.
Shiell, Leslie, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Ottawa.
Shin, Youngki, Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario.
Simon Woodcock, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Economics, Simon Fraser University. IZA Research Fellow.
Simpson, Wayne, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Manitoba.
Sims, William A., Chair, Department of Economics, Concordia University.
Siu, Henry, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of British Columbia.
Skedgel, Chris, Research Health Economist, Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University.
Skuterud, Mikal, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Waterloo.
Slade, Margaret, Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics, University of British Columbia.
Smith, Constance, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Alberta.
Stinebricker, Todd, Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario.
Strain, Frank, Professor, Department of Economics, Mount Allison University.
Streufert, Peter, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario.
Sweetman, Arthur, Professor, School of Policy Studies, Queen’s. Director of the School of Policy Studies, Stauffer-Dunning Chair in Policy Studies.
Telyukova, Irina, Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, University of British Columbia.
Troutt, Elizabeth, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Manitoba.
Usher, Dan, Emeritus Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Queen’s University.
Vaillancourt, Francois , Professeur titulaire, Département des sciences économiques, Université de Montréal.
Vercammen, Jim, Professor, Food and Resource Economics and Sauder School of Business, Univesity of British Columbia.
Vertinsky, Ilan, Professor, Sauder School of Business, SBE Division, IRES and IAR, University of British Columbia.
Ward, Tony, Department of Tourism and Environment, Department of Economics, Brock University.
Warman, Casey, Sessional Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Queen’s University.
Wen, Jean-Francois, Department of Economics, University of Calgary.
Wigle, Randall, Professor, School of Business and Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University.
Wilman, Elizabeth, Professor, Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Calgary.
Winer, Stanley L., Canada Research Chair Professor, School of Public Policy and Department of Economics, Carleton University.
Winter, Ralph, Professor, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia. President of the Canadian Economics Association.
Woolley, Frances, Professor, Department of Economics, Carleton University. past Secretary-Treasurer of the Canadian Economics Association.
Wylie, Peter, Associate Professor and Head , Economics, History, Philosophy, Political Science and Sociology, I.K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences, UBC Okanagan.
Yasmeen, Wahida, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, St. Francis Xavier University.
Yevdokimov,Yuri, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of New Brunswick.
Yilankaya, Okan, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Univesrity of British Columbia.
Young, Denise, Associate Professor, Dept of Economics, University of Alberta.
Yu, Kam, Associate Professor, Economics Department, Lakehead University.
Yu, Zhihao, Department of Economics, Carleton University.
Ziss, Steffen, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University.