Feds Set Aside $7B From Canada Growth Fund for Carbon-Price Contract Guarantees

Feds Set Aside $7B From Canada Growth Fund for Carbon-Price Contract Guarantees
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland makes her way to a cabinet meeting on Parliament Hill, in Ottawa, on Nov. 21, 2023. The Canadian Press/Adrian Wyld
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Almost half of the Canada Growth Fund for clean technology investments will be allocated to special contracts intended to give companies the confidence they need to make major investments to lower their greenhouse-gas emissions.

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland used her fall economic update on Nov. 21 to confirm that the fund—which she launched a year ago in the 2022 fall economic statement—would be the principal vehicle to deliver carbon contracts for difference.