Last week, the Alberta court of appeal struck quite a blow to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s controversial plan to force a carbon tax on the provinces that don’t want it.
The court ruled that the federal legislation ramming this tax down the throat of unwilling provinces was against their jurisdiction. As several provinces have argued, it should be up to their own governments to decide whether or not they implement such a tax.
This decision is in contrast to two previous ones announced by courts in Ontario and Saskatchewan, both of which argued the carbon tax is in fact constitutional.
It should be noted though that both of these decisions were split ones, with dissenting judges opposing the feds’ power play.
“A new legal reality is now inescapably clear: it’s possible the Supreme Court could strike down the federal carbon tax,” writes Aaron Wudrick and Franco Terrazzano, both from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, in a recent Sun guest op-ed.
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Who in hell is the gramma wearing her scarf like an over the hill Harry Potter and sounding like she is talking underwater? No less than a Trudeau point person! Dead country walking.
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