Andrew Coyne

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Credentials

• Coyne is a graduate of the University of Toronto and the London School of Economics.¹“Andrew Coyne,” The Globe and Mail. Archived September 28, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/3Izxw

Background

Andrew Coyne is a columnist at The Globe and Mail, former editor of Maclean’s magazine, and former editor²James Bradshaw. “Andrew Coyne exits editor role at National Post over endorsement,” The Globe and Mail, October 19, 2015. Archived April 8, 2024. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/cMtOI and contributor to the National Post. ³“Andrew Coyne,”The Globe and Mail. Archived September 28, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/3Izxw

Coyne has directed a range of Canadian foundations who have heavily funded free-market think tanks in Canada. The Aurea Foundation, for example, has funded the Fraser Institute, the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, the Frontier Center for Public Policy (FCPP), the Montreal Economic Institute, and the Macdonald Laurier Institute (MLI) among others. He is also a former director of the Canadian Constitution Foundation (CCF) in 2008 and 2009, and listed on their advisory board as recently as 2016.⁴“Board,” Canadian Constitution Foundation. Archived July 13, 2016. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/ubWFz

DeSmog previously reported on Andrew Coyne’s connections to a variety of free market think tanks.⁵Kevin Grandia. “Andrew Coyne’s Connections to Free Market Think Tanks; Disclosure Lacking,” DeSmog, September 24, 2012.

Coyne has has described the Maconald Laurier Institute (MLI) as “a fine organization that does lots of valuable work, even if you disagree with their findings.”⁶“The Aurea Foundation board was disbanded in December 2016.” Twitter post by user “@acoyne”, July 31, 2018. Archived .png on file at DeSmog. Coyne also wrote the forward to MLI founder Brian Lee Crowley’s book Fearful Symmetry, where Coyne described “his intellectual honesty; his unblinking openness to facts and reasoned arguments, even those that contradict his preconceptions; above all his fearlessness.”⁷“Fearful Symmetry – the Fall and Rise of Canada’s Founding Values,” Everand. Accessed April 8, 2024. Archived .png on file at DeSmog.

According to charity data from the Canadian Revenue Agency (CRA), Coyne is also a former director of the Energy Probe Research Foundation, a group founded and managed by climate change denier Lawrence Solomon.⁸“Our Staff,” Energy Probe. Archived August 4, 2022. Archive URL:https://archive.ph/WeQsU According to the Energy Probe website, Coyne was a director from 2001 until 2021.⁹“Our Board,” Energy Probe. Archived April 30, 2024. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/CB0Bo

Coyne has disclosed this relationship before, including a 2017 column where he discussed the tax-free status of charities. The disclosure read: “Disclosure: I sit on the board of a registered charity, the Energy Probe Research Foundation, whose views may not necessarily be the same as my own.”¹⁰“Andrew Coyne: Take the politics out of charity? Far better to just cancel the tax break,” National Post, May 5, 2017. Archived August 18, 2023.

Aurea Foundation Funding

Records from the Canada Revenue Agency, reviewed by DeSmog, list Coyne as a board member of the Aurea Foundation from 2006 until he said the board was disbanded in 2016. The Aurea Foundation was established in 2006 by Melanie and the late Peter Munk¹¹“Aurea Foundation,” AureaFoundation.com. Archived August 28, 2014. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/MJ4QA who previously founded Barrick Gold,¹²“It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of our Founder, Peter Munk, the iconic Canadian entrepreneur and philanthropist. He was 90,” Barrick Gold. Archived August 24, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/sGvaw formerly¹³Alistair MacDonald and Jacquie McNish. “Newmont to Buy Goldcorp, Creating World’s Largest Gold Miner,” The Wall Street Journal, January 14, 2019. Archived March 13, 2024. the world’s largest gold mining company.¹⁴“It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of our Founder, Peter Munk, the iconic Canadian entrepreneur and philanthropist. He was 90,” Barrick Gold. Archived August 24, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/sGvaw

During those years, the foundation gave millons of dollars to Canadian think tanks with a history of climate change denial or opposition to climate and environmental policy such as the Fraser Institute, the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, the Montreal Economic Institute, the Macdonald Laurier Institute and the Atlantic Institute for Public Policy.

The Frontier Centre, which received more than $2 million during the period Coyne was a director, published a piece by Patrick Moore in 2015 claiming “[t]here is simply no scientific proof that our CO2 emissions are the cause of the slight warming that has occurred over the 300-year period since the peak of the Little Ice Age.”¹⁵Patrick Moore. “Cap-and-Trade in Carbon Dioxide Stifles the Economy for no Good Reason,” Frontier Centre for Public Policy, April 17, 2015. Archived August 14, 2015. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/s0rNV

Many of the think tanks funded by Aurea, including all the aforementioned, in turn belong to a U.S. organization called the Atlas Network, which includes more than 500 “free market” think tanks around the world, many of which have promoted climate change denial and anti-environment views. Atlas has been described as “The Johnny Appleseed of antiregulation groups.”¹⁶“Atlas Economic Research Foundation,” SourceWatch profile.

Below is a breakdown of the key groups:

Stance on Climate Change

June 8, 2023

“No, the forest fires that have lately engulfed the cities of the eastern United States and Canada in smoke are probably not the result of global warming,” Coyne wrote in an op-ed article at The Globe and Mail.¹⁷Andrew Coyne “After this season of fire, the Conservatives must make their peace with carbon pricing,” The Globe and Mail, June 8, 2023. Archived July 5, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/4rKLW

He continued:

“This year might be on track to set a record for wildfires in Canada, but the Canadian National Fire Database shows a declining trend over the past 30 years, even as global temperatures have continued to rise.

“But so what? It is not necessary to believe that climate change is responsible for any particular climatological event to agree, as a general proposition, that it is happening, that it is harmful, and that it is mainly caused by human activity, the evidence for which is overwhelming. If climate change is not responsible for this particular spike in wildfires, that does not mean it will not lead to more, on average, in the years to come. Or to more extreme weather events in general, which is really the point.”

January 4, 2015

When asked in a CanadaLand interview whether the Energy Probe Research Foundation was “a climate change denial group,” given its founder Laurence Solomon saying his view that “manmade climate change is not a threat,” Coyne responded “I don’t agree with him.”¹⁸“Canadaland #64 Andrew Coyne,” Canadaland, January 4, 2015. Archived July 5, 2023. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/AeVvY

“The more general thing is, you know, sensible use of economic instruments to try to achieve environmental ends,” Coyne said.

January 4, 2015

When asked “are you going to publish climate change deniers and the opinion pages of The National Post?” Coyne responded:¹⁹“Canadaland #64 Andrew Coyne,” Canadaland, January 4, 2015. Archived July 5, 2023. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/AeVvY

“I’m not going to say one way or the other. I’m going to look at each presentation. I would not, let’s put that way. I don’t have a total ban on that, no. … There are genuine skeptics. There are people who are not ideologues and not stupid and not crazy. And I don’t write them all off.”

In September 2015, the National Post published an article by University of Guelph economics professor Ross McKitrick, where McKitrick claimed “on average the observed warming this century was only a quarter what [the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s] models projected.”²⁰Ross McKitrick. “When Margaret met Preston,” National Post, September 8, 2015. Archived April 8, 2024. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/K0yDI

June 26, 2013

“To recap: the accumulation of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, widely held to be responsible for climate change, is not the work of a handful of big polluters, but the consequence of millions of individual choices by producers and consumers, large and small,” Coyne wrote at The National Post in an article titled “Obama speech shows we’re running out of time for a market-based response to climate change.”²¹Andrew Coyne. “Obama speech shows we’re running out of time for a market-based response to climate change,” National Post, June 26, 2013. Archived July 6, 2023.

Carbon Pricing

Andrew Coyne has written a number of articles in support of carbon pricing as a method to combat climate change. For example:

June 8, 2023

Coyne wrote at The Globe and Mail:²²Andrew Coyne. “After this season of fire, the Conservatives must make their peace with carbon pricing,” The Globe and Mail, June 8, 2023. Archived August 17, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/4rKLW

“Whether or not we meet our targets for emissions reductions is of far less consequence, to the world or ourselves, than whether we cripple our economy in the process. That’s by no means inevitable. It depends on how we go about it: on the policy choices we make. Specifically, it depends on whether we rely on prices, in the main, to bring about the needed reductions, or whether we use subsidies and regulations to get there.

“The evidence for this is as overwhelming as the evidence for global warming itself.”

November 27, 2021

Coyne wrote at the Globe and Mail:²³Andrew Coyne. “A higher carbon price could get us to Paris on its own, at much less cost to the economy,” The Globe and Mail, November 27, 2021. Archived November 27, 2021.

“Over and over, economists remind us that the most cost-effective way to reduce our greenhouse emissions, by far, is to put a price on carbon. […] So a (more) purely carbon-price approach is quite feasible. If it would achieve the same reductions in emissions, at a fraction of the cost of current policy, what on earth is stopping us?”

December 15, 2020

“The case for pricing carbon is that it is by far the most efficient means of reducing emissions of carbon. Regulations only encourage reductions up to the point of compliance. Subsidies often pay for reductions that would have been made anyway. Both apply only to the things it occurs to the planners to regulate or subsidize,” Coyne wrote at The Globe and Mail. ²⁴Andrew Coyne. “The Liberals’ new climate plan is bold, if you ignore the bolder road not taken,” The Globe and Mail, December 15, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/29T1P

February 25, 2020

Coyne wrote at the Globe and Mail:²⁵Andrew Coyne. “On reconciliation, development and carbon pricing: Enough with the all-or-nothing rhetoric,” The Globe and Mail, February 25, 2020. Archived February 25, 2020.

“Indigenous people, rather than being the helpless victims of development, could be partners in it, with appropriate mitigation of costs and sharing of benefits. Carbon pricing, instead of impeding resource extraction, could make it more possible, if not by purchasing social licence directly, then by encouraging the reductions in emissions intensity that would do so in the long run. […]

“People who think we can just shut down the oil sands today have not remotely contended with the consequences, not only for the economy, but the federal union. People who think we can just do nothing about climate change make themselves permanent exiles from power.

“But that, alas, is what too many people do think. Only when all sides dispense with the fantasy of total victory will there be a way out of this stalemate.”

October 5, 2018

“This is the dirty little secret the anti-carbon tax folks would prefer you did not know. You can try to cut emissions by other ways: regulations on business are a particular favourite. But those come with costs just as surely as a carbon tax does — every dollar of which would be passed on to the same ‘hard-working families’ the critics pretend to care about,” Coyne wrote at the National Post.²⁶Andrew Coyne. “Andrew Coyne: The dirty little secret anti-carbon tax folks would prefer you did not know,” National Post, October 15, 2018. Archived May 21, 2023.

May 19, 2017

Coyne wrote the following at the National Post:²⁷“Andrew Coyne: The federal carbon tax has become unnecessarily costly,” National Post, May 19, 2017. Archived August 17, 2023.

“The supposition is that unless emissions are reduced globally, there’s no point. But you could just as well make the case that there’s no point anyway. With just 1.6 per cent of global emissions, we’re more or less irrelevant, as far as saving the planet is concerned. That’s not an argument for doing nothing. It’s an argument for doing our part — as long as we are under no illusions what ‘our part’ means.

“Climate change is an example of a collective action problem. Though each country might make very little difference on its own, together they make a great deal of difference. Yet if every country, following the logic of its own unimportance, did nothing, no one would do anything.

“Usually these sorts of problems are resolved by compulsion: it’s why you have to pay taxes. At the international level, it can only really be by agreement — though there may be penalties for non-compliance. Living up to our promised emissions reductions isn’t about saving the world so much as staying onside with the world, if for no other reason than there may be costs to not doing so.

“The choice facing us as a country, then, is rather like that facing a company under a carbon tax: to reduce emissions, so long as it is less costly than the alternative. One implication of that is we should do so in the least costly way possible, namely by taxing carbon. At some point, if we keep piling on unnecessary costs, it will be cheaper to renege.”

Other articles on carbon pricing:

• “No, that PBO study doesn’t prove the carbon tax is a stealth cash grab,” The Globe and Mail, April 4, 2023.
• “Is carbon pricing Liberal policy? For the most part, it’s anything but,” The Globe and Mail, November 5, 2021.
• “How much we cut carbon emissions is less important than how we do so,” The Globe and Mail, November 3, 2021.
• “The Conservatives’ carbon pricing plan: a tax that wouldn’t even reduce carbon consumption,” The Globe and Mail, April 20, 2021.
• “There’s an alternative to the Liberal carbon tax: a Conservative carbon tax,” The Globe and Mail, December 18, 2020.
• “A carbon pricing plan Conservatives could get behind,” The Globe and Mail, March 4, 2020.
• “Andrew Coyne: Liberals are either backing away from their emissions target, or backing away from carbon tax,” National Post, June 14, 2019.
• “Carbon tax smackdown, part 2: Andrew Coyne asks what is this argument really about?” National Post, May 25, 2019.
• “Andrew Coyne: Carbon tax ruling a victory for the planet, federalism and common sense,” National Post, May 3, 2019.
• “Andrew Coyne: Political grandstanding could cost us both a pipeline and the carbon tax,” National Post, April 26, 2019.
• “Andrew Coyne: What the Conservative carbon tax obsession will cost us,” National Post, April 15, 2019.
• “Andrew Coyne: Liberals’ carbon tax plan has its faults — but who has a better option?” National Post, October 24, 2018.
• “Andrew Coyne: Approaching carbon tax one reason now is a good time for broad-based tax reform,” National Post, October 15, 2018.
• “Andrew Coyne: The Trudeau Liberals fall to earth, crushed by pipelines and carbon taxes,” National Post, August 31, 2018.
• “Andrew Coyne: Provincial carbon tax revolt could be a blessing in disguise for federal Liberals,” National Post, July 20, 2018.
• “Andrew Coyne: We know how much a carbon tax would cost. If only we could say the same about the Tories’ alternative,” National Post, June 18, 2018.
• “Andrew Coyne: Ontario’s broke, will Ford really reject a multi-billion dollar carbon tax windfall?” National Post, June 8, 2018.
• “Andrew Coyne: It’s simple, really — raise carbon taxes and cut income taxes,” National Post, April 22, 2016.
• “Andrew Coyne: A carbon tax is coming, no matter what Ontario PC candidates say,” National Post, February 12, 2018.
• “Andrew Coyne: Revenue-neutral carbon tax is not a fairy tale,” National Post, March 15, 2017.
• “Andrew Coyne: How a carbon tax without the U.S. can work for Canada,” National Post, November 21, 2016.
• “Andrew Coyne: Liberals’ carbon price hardly a drastic measure,” National Post, October 7, 2016.
• “Andrew Coyne: There’s a conservative case for carbon pricing, but not a good one for the alternative,” National Post, September 23, 2016.
• “Andrew Coyne: Carbon pricing is cheapest way to reduce emissions but political cost is too high,” National Post, September 22, 2016.
• “Andrew Coyne: Should we dread more that carbon plan is not lived up to, or that it is?” National Post, March 4, 2016.
• “Andrew Coyne: Alberta carbon tax hurt by flotilla of new regulations and subsidies,” National Post, November 23, 2015.
• “Andrew Coyne: Liberals join other federal parties in leading from behind provinces on carbon pricing,” National Post, January 23, 2015.

Key Quotes

July 31, 2018

Coyne tweeted in response to a question about his affiliation with the Aurea Foundation, saying “The Aurea Foundation board was disbanded in December 2016, but the Macdonald Laurier Institute is a fine organization that does lots of valuable work, even if you disagree with their findings.”²⁸“The Aurea Foundation board was disbanded in December 2016, but the Macdonald Laurier Institute is a fine organization that does lots of valuable work, even if you disagree with their findings,” tweet by user “@acoyne,” July 31, 2018. Archived .png on file at DeSmog.

According to CRA data, while the Aurea board was reduced to three individuals in 2017, it was not completely disbanded, and it has continued to operate. As of fiscal period 2022, there were five people listed on the Aurea Foundation board.²⁹“T3010 Registered Charity Information Return: Aurea Foundation,” Canada Revenue Agency, Government of Canada. Archived August 24, 2023.

May 9, 2013

Coyne was quoted in the Montreal Economic Institute’s (MEI) 2013 annual report, referencing an article he wrote in the National Post:³⁰“IDEAS FOR A MORE PROSPEROUS NATION: Annual Report 2013” (PDF), Montreal Economic Institute. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

“(…) Governments, that is, should do what markets cannot. They should not try to do what markets can. This is a matter of scarce resources, if nothing else: the more government spends in areas where it is not needed, the less it will have left to spend in areas where it is essential. As a maxim, government should only do what only government can do.”

Key Actions

January 12, 2019

As mentioned in the CCF’s annual report, Coyne was a panelist at the Runnymede Society’s 2019 Law & Freedom conference. The Runnymede Society is a project of CCF. See video of the panel below:

June 6, 2017

Coyne debated “the future of journalism” at a Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI) event. The debate, according to MLI’s annual report, was on whether “The government must act to save journalism in Canada.” John Honderich, former publisher of the Toronto Star, debated on the “Yea” side while Coyne debated on the “Nay” side.³¹“Shaping the National Conversation: 2017 Annual Report” (PDF), MLI. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

April 29, 2015

Andrew Coyne participated in a MLI debate, arguing on favour on the resolution “Canada’s Democracy is in Crisis” and John Pepall arguing Against.³²“Celebrating 5 Years of Making Canada Better: Macdonald-Laurier Institute 2015 Annual Report” (PDF), MLI. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

“This was our most talked about and best attended debate. Our media partner CPAC aired the debate several times, and it was featured on the Walrus Website (http://thewalrus.ca) and generated 4,534 views to the MLI website,” MLI noted in its annual report.

Coyne reported on the event at the National Post.³³“Andrew Coyne: We have the form of a parliamentary democracy, but not the substance,” National Post, May 27, 2015. Archived August 18, 2023.

Coyne also attended an event put on by MLI for “Sir John A Macdonald’s 200th Birthday Party.”

MLI donors listed that year in the annual report included the Atlas Foundation, the Aurea Foundation where Coyne was listed as a director that same year, the Donner Canadian Foundation, and the Canadian Fuels Association among others. Spectra Energy Corporation was one of the listed event sponsors that year.

That same year, MLI partnered with eco-pragmatist.com to bring fossil fuel proponent Alex Epstein to discuss the launch of his book, “The Moral Case of Fossil Fuels, on June 23, 2015.”

“The goal of the event was to help Canadians better appreciate the complexities of fossil fuel use and the climate change debate,” MLI suggested.

January 4, 2015

Coyne discussed a number of topics in an interview with Canadaland, including “Publishing climate change deniers in the pages of the National Post.”³⁴“Canadaland #64 Andrew Coyne,” Canadaland, January 4, 2015. Archived July 5, 2023. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/AeVvY

Coyne responded:

“I’m not going to say one way or the other.” I’m going to I’m going to look at each presentation. I would not, let’s put that way. I don’t have a total ban on that, no. There are, in my experience looking at that, there’s lots of charlatans on the quote unquote skeptic side. And those people are not skeptics. They’re ideologues. There are genuine skeptics. There are people who are not ideologues and not stupid and not crazy. And I don’t write them all off.”

September 2014

Coyne co-authored a study with the Fraser Institute examining the Canada Pension Plan’s (CPP) active investing strategy. “Active management is a crock,” Coyne concluded in his article at the National Post.³⁵“Andrew Coyne: Canada Pension Plan’s active management strategy is a crock,” National Post, September 3, 2014. Archived August 18, 2023.

2014

Coyne was one of the attendees of the Canadian Constitution Foundation’s (CCF) annual Law and Freedom Conference, according to CCF’s annual report.³⁶“The Canadian Constitution Foundation’s Annual Report 2014” (PDF), Canadian Constitution Foundation, June 9, 2015 (PDF creation date).

2011

MLI noted in its annual report that Andrew Coyne was among those who took part in the launch of its debate series.³⁷“The Macdonald-Laurier Institute: Annual Report 2011” (PDF), MLI. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

Donors listed that year included the Aurea Foundation, where Coyne was a director at the time, as well as the Donner Canadian Foundation, Atlas Economic Research Foundation, among others. Encana and the Canadian Petroleum Products Institute were listed among event sponsors.

2010

The Macdonald-Laurier Institute hosted “An Evening with Crowley, Coyne and Hébert” where “guests were treated to a lively discussion on contemporary politics between Brian Lee Crowley and noted Canadian journalists Andrew Coyne and Chantal Hébert.”³⁸“The Macdonald-Laurier Institute Annual Report” (PDF), December 21, 2010. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.

Affiliations

• Aurea Foundation — Director from 2002 to 2016, according to CRA data reviewed by DeSmog.³⁹Data retrieved from the Canadian Revenue Agency and on file at DeSmog.
• Canadian Constitution Foundation (CCF) — Director in 2008/2009 according to both CRA Data and CCF annual reports. Listed as an Advisory Board member from 2010 to 2012 in annual reports.⁴⁰Data retrieved from the Canadian Revenue Agency and on file at DeSmog.
• Energy Probe Research Foundation (EPRF) — Director from 2001 until 2021.⁴¹Data retrieved from the Canadian Revenue Agency and on file at DeSmog. ⁴²“Our Board,” Energy Probe. Archived April 30, 2024. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/CB0Bo Lawrence Solomon is the founder of EPRF.
• National Post — Former editor.⁴³James Bradshaw. “Andrew Coyne exits editor role at National Post over endorsement,” The Globe and Mail, October 19, 2015. Archived April 8, 2024. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/cMtOI Coyne worked for the National Post from its launch in 1998 until 2007, then returned in 2011 as a national columnist. He was appointed editor of Editorials and Comment in 2014.⁴⁴(Press Release). “National Post Appoints Andrew Coyne Editor, Editorials and Comment,” Postmedia, December 18, 2014. Archived April 8, 2024. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/npmRp
• Toronto East Health Network Foundation — Director in 2007 and 2008, according to CRA data.⁴⁵Data retrieved from the Canadian Revenue Agency and on file at DeSmog.

Social Media

• @acoyne on Twitter

Publications

Search below by title or keyword for recent publications by Andrew Coyne, as of 2023:

Other Resources

Resources

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  “Andrew Coyne,” The Globe and Mail. Archived September 28, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/3Izxw
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  James Bradshaw. “Andrew Coyne exits editor role at National Post over endorsement,” The Globe and Mail, October 19, 2015. Archived April 8, 2024. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/cMtOI
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  “Andrew Coyne,”The Globe and Mail. Archived September 28, 2022. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/3Izxw
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  “Board,” Canadian Constitution Foundation. Archived July 13, 2016. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/ubWFz
• 5
  Kevin Grandia. “Andrew Coyne’s Connections to Free Market Think Tanks; Disclosure Lacking,” DeSmog, September 24, 2012.
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  “The Aurea Foundation board was disbanded in December 2016.” Twitter post by user “@acoyne”, July 31, 2018. Archived .png on file at DeSmog.
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  “Fearful Symmetry – the Fall and Rise of Canada’s Founding Values,” Everand. Accessed April 8, 2024. Archived .png on file at DeSmog.
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  “Our Staff,” Energy Probe. Archived August 4, 2022. Archive URL:https://archive.ph/WeQsU
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  “Our Board,” Energy Probe. Archived April 30, 2024. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/CB0Bo
• 10
  “Andrew Coyne: Take the politics out of charity? Far better to just cancel the tax break,” National Post, May 5, 2017. Archived August 18, 2023.
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  “Aurea Foundation,” AureaFoundation.com. Archived August 28, 2014. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/MJ4QA
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  “It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of our Founder, Peter Munk, the iconic Canadian entrepreneur and philanthropist. He was 90,” Barrick Gold. Archived August 24, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/sGvaw
• 13
  Alistair MacDonald and Jacquie McNish. “Newmont to Buy Goldcorp, Creating World’s Largest Gold Miner,” The Wall Street Journal, January 14, 2019. Archived March 13, 2024.
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  “It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of our Founder, Peter Munk, the iconic Canadian entrepreneur and philanthropist. He was 90,” Barrick Gold. Archived August 24, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/sGvaw
• 15
  Patrick Moore. “Cap-and-Trade in Carbon Dioxide Stifles the Economy for no Good Reason,” Frontier Centre for Public Policy, April 17, 2015. Archived August 14, 2015. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/s0rNV
• 16
  “Atlas Economic Research Foundation,” SourceWatch profile.
• 17
  Andrew Coyne “After this season of fire, the Conservatives must make their peace with carbon pricing,” The Globe and Mail, June 8, 2023. Archived July 5, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/4rKLW
• 18
  “Canadaland #64 Andrew Coyne,” Canadaland, January 4, 2015. Archived July 5, 2023. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/AeVvY
• 19
  “Canadaland #64 Andrew Coyne,” Canadaland, January 4, 2015. Archived July 5, 2023. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/AeVvY
• 20
  Ross McKitrick. “When Margaret met Preston,” National Post, September 8, 2015. Archived April 8, 2024. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/K0yDI
• 21
  Andrew Coyne. “Obama speech shows we’re running out of time for a market-based response to climate change,” National Post, June 26, 2013. Archived July 6, 2023.
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  Andrew Coyne. “After this season of fire, the Conservatives must make their peace with carbon pricing,” The Globe and Mail, June 8, 2023. Archived August 17, 2023. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/4rKLW
• 23
  Andrew Coyne. “A higher carbon price could get us to Paris on its own, at much less cost to the economy,” The Globe and Mail, November 27, 2021. Archived November 27, 2021.
• 24
  Andrew Coyne. “The Liberals’ new climate plan is bold, if you ignore the bolder road not taken,” The Globe and Mail, December 15, 2020. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/29T1P
• 25
  Andrew Coyne. “On reconciliation, development and carbon pricing: Enough with the all-or-nothing rhetoric,” The Globe and Mail, February 25, 2020. Archived February 25, 2020.
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  Andrew Coyne. “Andrew Coyne: The dirty little secret anti-carbon tax folks would prefer you did not know,” National Post, October 15, 2018. Archived May 21, 2023.
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  “Andrew Coyne: The federal carbon tax has become unnecessarily costly,” National Post, May 19, 2017. Archived August 17, 2023.
• 28
  “The Aurea Foundation board was disbanded in December 2016, but the Macdonald Laurier Institute is a fine organization that does lots of valuable work, even if you disagree with their findings,” tweet by user “@acoyne,” July 31, 2018. Archived .png on file at DeSmog.
• 29
  “T3010 Registered Charity Information Return: Aurea Foundation,” Canada Revenue Agency, Government of Canada. Archived August 24, 2023.
• 30
  “IDEAS FOR A MORE PROSPEROUS NATION: Annual Report 2013” (PDF), Montreal Economic Institute. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
• 31
  “Shaping the National Conversation: 2017 Annual Report” (PDF), MLI. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
• 32
  “Celebrating 5 Years of Making Canada Better: Macdonald-Laurier Institute 2015 Annual Report” (PDF), MLI. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
• 33
  “Andrew Coyne: We have the form of a parliamentary democracy, but not the substance,” National Post, May 27, 2015. Archived August 18, 2023.
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  “Canadaland #64 Andrew Coyne,” Canadaland, January 4, 2015. Archived July 5, 2023. Archived .mp4 on file at DeSmog. Archive URL: https://archive.ph/AeVvY
• 35
  “Andrew Coyne: Canada Pension Plan’s active management strategy is a crock,” National Post, September 3, 2014. Archived August 18, 2023.
• 36
  “The Canadian Constitution Foundation’s Annual Report 2014” (PDF), Canadian Constitution Foundation, June 9, 2015 (PDF creation date).
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  “The Macdonald-Laurier Institute: Annual Report 2011” (PDF), MLI. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
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  “The Macdonald-Laurier Institute Annual Report” (PDF), December 21, 2010. Archived .pdf on file at DeSmog.
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  Data retrieved from the Canadian Revenue Agency and on file at DeSmog.
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  Data retrieved from the Canadian Revenue Agency and on file at DeSmog.
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