Senior Fellow
Senior Fellow
Dr. Fournier is an accomplished executive and senior scientist, with a 15-year track record in the oil sands, power generation, environmental science and agricultural industries, both in Canada and in United States.
His career has afforded him an exposure to a diverse range of exciting technology development projects, where he enjoyed fulfilling leadership roles with numerous capital projects, each more than $100 million.
Dr. Fournier`s formal graduate training was in chemical physics, with a focus on solid state electrochemistry specific to hydrogen fuel cells and battery technologies and his undergraduate training was in physics and environmental chemistry.
Currently, Dr. Fournier lives 100 km east of Calgary near the village of Rockford, where he and his family own and operate a ranch along Service Berry Creek. Dr. Fournier`s professional engagements include free-lance journalism and has written over 70 articles over the past 2 years on a range of topics in the space of energy, environment and climate science.
Senior Fellow Joseph Fournier argues that Canadian farm regulations, including supply management and costly compliance rules, are driving small producers out of agriculture, increasing food costs and market concentration, and calls for reforms that scale regulations to farm size.
Canada’s productivity and housing crises could be eased through a modern Dominion Land Act. Releasing targeted Crown land for families, workers, and Indigenous development would revitalize rural communities, expand housing supply, strengthen national projects, and renew Canadian nation building ambition.
Senior Fellow Joseph Fournier argues that industrial agriculture and mechanization transformed society by boosting productivity and freeing humanity from subsistence, urging Canada to defend modern farming and embrace a technology-driven rural renaissance.
Senior Fellow Joseph Fournier argues Ottawa’s Industrial Carbon Tax acts as a crushing surcharge on energy-intensive industries, driving up costs, fuelling food inflation, deterring investment, and weakening Canada’s productivity, competitiveness, and export potential when growth is urgently needed.
Senior Fellow Joseph Fournier argues green steel is fantasy economics. Hydrogen steel would demand China-sized power, trillions in subsidies, and Chinese minerals, while blast furnaces remain cheaper, scalable, and essential to housing, infrastructure, and prosperity worldwide today.
