Energy

Canada is one of the world’s largest per capita consumers of energy and the largest external supplier of energy to the US market. The energy sector, broadly defined, occupies a significant place in the Canadian economy. As a moderately large producer and very large consumer of energy, Canada has a significant economic and geopolitical interest in the global forces and trends that will drive energy production and consumption in the years ahead.

The CIC Energy Working Group highlighted the nexus of Canadian energy and domestic policy with foreign policy issues and priorities, with a focus on two particular issue areas, climate change and electricity policy, projects that aimed to inform and provoke the Canadian policy debate – federally and provincially – by examining the linkages between climate change policy, electricity policy and foreign policy.