{"id":52767,"date":"2024-11-13T18:46:22","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T18:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2024\/11\/13\/u-s-election-dismays-michael-mccain\/"},"modified":"2024-11-13T18:46:22","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T18:46:22","slug":"u-s-election-dismays-michael-mccain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2024\/11\/13\/u-s-election-dismays-michael-mccain\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. election dismays Michael McCain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<header aria-label=\"Beginning of Article\" class=\"article-header article-header--story\">\n<nav aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\" class=\"breadcrumbs\" data-aqa=\"nav-breadcrumb\">\n<p>Breadcrumb Trail Links<\/p>\n<ol class=\"breadcrumbs__items list-unstyled\">\n<li class=\"breadcrumbs__item\">News<\/li>\n<li class=\"breadcrumbs__item\">Economy<\/li>\n<li class=\"breadcrumbs__item\">Retail &amp; Marketing<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/nav>\n<div class=\"article-header__detail\">\n<div class=\"article-header__detail__texts\">\n<p class=\"article-subtitle\">&#8216;Hopeful that we will kind of hold our nose and get through it&#8217;<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<p><span class=\"published-date__since\">Published Nov 13, 2024<\/span> \u00a0\u2022\u00a0 <span class=\"published-date__word-count\">5 minute read<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-meta__bottom\">\n<div class=\"bookmark-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"popover\" data-aqa=\"popover\" data-click-to-appear=\"True\" data-container=\"\" data-container-offset=\"\" data-no-style=\"\" data-popover-component=\"\" data-position=\"top\" data-sticky=\"\" data-tail-offset=\"200\" data-tail-position=\"right\"><button class=\"popover__trigger bookmark-button\"><span class=\"save-article-button save-article-button--default\" title=\"Save article\" data-article-id=\"0b35bf94-f11f-480a-aa53-ffebad8a30e9\" data-evt-skip-click=\"true\"\/><\/button><\/p>\n<div aria-describedby=\"popover-desc-popover-bookmark\" class=\"popover__content\" hidden=\"\" role=\"dialog\">\n<div class=\"popover__content__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"popover__content__text\" id=\"popover-desc-popover-bookmark\">\n<div class=\"bookmark__popover__content\">\n<p>You can save this article by registering for free here. 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His greatest priority in the present is tackling the \u201cclimate emergency\u201d and ensuring there is a livable planet for future generations to grow up on.<\/p>\n<p>Five years ago, Maple Leaf achieved a \u201cprotein\u201d industry first by becoming a carbon-neutral operation. It was an embrace of a greener, more sustainable path for the company, and it required tens of millions of dollars in investments, a capital outlay aided by the McCain family having a controlling interest in the company, not to mention that McCain, at the time of the shift, was its chief executive.<\/p>\n<p>The belief in the boardroom was that being good to the planet would also be good for business, and perhaps a payoff is beginning to trickle in since the company reported an $18-million profit in its third quarter, compared to a $4-million loss a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Times are good business-wise, but the great unknown now is what impact a protectionist, tariff-erecting Trump, who would pull out of the Paris Agreement and deport undocumented American workers, will have if, of course, he follows through on his campaign promises.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"ad__section-border article-content__ad-group ad_counter_4\">\n<section aria-describedby=\"advertisment8083498710918073620641802532945920\" class=\"ad\">\n<p>Advertisement 4<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad__container\">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\" id=\"ad__inner-4\">\n<div class=\"ad__inner__container\" data-ad=\"[[1200,250],[1200,90],[970,90],[970,250],[728,90],[300,250]]\" data-ad-loc=\"4\" data-ad-mobile=\"[[320,50],[300,50],[300,250]]\" data-aqa=\"advertisement\" id=\"ad-4\" style=\"--desktopHeight:250px;--mobileHeight:250px\">\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"ad__placeholder\">\n<p>This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story\">\n<p>Article content<\/p>\n<p>Trump ditching the Paris Agreement would \u201cline some pockets\u201d in the near term, McCain said, but he remains confident that there is a critical mass of people globally who bring a long-term lens to tackling climate issues.<\/p>\n<p>As for tariffs and mass deportations, McCain isn\u2019t an economist, but he can\u2019t make sense of policies that run counter to the accepted wisdoms of economic prosperity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy very basic economics would say that the American people were most concerned about the economy and inflation, and yet they are endorsing a government whose two primary economic pillars \u2014 tariffs and mass deportation \u2014 are probably going to be the single most inflationary initiatives I could ever imagine,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd in both cases, I just don\u2019t have the ability to connect the logic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the Toronto event, McCain stood behind a ballroom podium against a backdrop of Canadian flags and told his audience that the Canadian government was not above its own embrace of legislative lunacy. Exhibit A is Bill C-59, a.k.a. the \u201canti-greenwashing bill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bill was passed with the good intention of holding companies accountable for their environmentally sustainable messaging. If all their green talk did not have basis in provable actions, a so-called greenwasher could be subject to legal action.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"ad__section-border article-content__ad-group ad_counter_5\">\n<section aria-describedby=\"advertisment3625411736260927175068103261290496\" class=\"ad\">\n<p>Advertisement 5<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad__container\">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\" id=\"ad__inner-5\">\n<div class=\"ad__inner__container\" data-ad=\"[[1200,250],[1200,90],[970,90],[970,250],[728,90],[300,250]]\" data-ad-loc=\"5\" data-ad-mobile=\"[[320,50],[300,50],[300,250]]\" data-aqa=\"advertisement\" id=\"ad-5\" style=\"--desktopHeight:250px;--mobileHeight:250px\">\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"ad__placeholder\">\n<p>This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story\">\n<p>Article content<\/p>\n<p>A great idea at first blush, McCain said, but the threat of a financial penalty of up to $10 million, or three per cent of a company\u2019s revenues, could expose good corporate actors to \u201cfrivolous\u201d accusations and the onus would be on the company to disprove them.<\/p>\n<p>The result, he said, is that instead of standing up and declaring their environmental, social and governance (ESG) bona fides, corporations in the North American food sector are already pulling back. Mentions of sustainability are being ditched from quarterly reports and initiatives targeting environmentally sustainable ends could be at risk of being abandoned altogether. Amid a punitive environment, leaders will be consumed with trying to be \u201ccompliant\u201d instead of looking to lead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBill C-59 is only a risk to those who are trying to demonstrate leadership in climate action, and the unintended consequences of C-59 are to dwarf its decent intentions,\u201d McCain said, adding that the bill is \u201cbad policy\u201d and needs to be repealed and replaced by a policy that \u201cestablishes clear support for businesses to advance their sustainability commitments in a credible and transparent way, find pathways to incent leadership and progress, even in the absence of perfection, and avoid the unintended consequence of greenhushing.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"ad__section-border article-content__ad-group ad_counter_6\">\n<section aria-describedby=\"advertisment6478817849780338483591429662703616\" class=\"ad\">\n<p>Advertisement 6<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad__container\">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\" id=\"ad__inner-6\">\n<div class=\"ad__inner__container\" data-ad=\"[[1200,250],[1200,90],[970,90],[970,250],[728,90],[300,250]]\" data-ad-loc=\"6\" data-ad-mobile=\"[[320,50],[300,50],[300,250]]\" data-aqa=\"advertisement\" id=\"ad-6\" style=\"--desktopHeight:250px;--mobileHeight:250px\">\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"ad__placeholder\">\n<p>This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"article-content__content-group article-content__content-group--story\">\n<p>Article content<\/p>\n<p>While \u201cdiscouraged\u201d by events south of the border, McCain isn\u2019t feeling defeated by them. 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