Alberta court rules federal carbon tax is unconstitutional

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The decision, which is not binding, follows earlier decisions in Ontario and Saskatchewan and comes a month before a hearing at the Supreme Court of Canada

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This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.The Alberta Court of Appeal has concluded the federal government’s carbon tax is an unconstitutional intrusion into provincial powers, handing Ottawa a major defeat in its climate-change battle with conservative premiers.

Ottawa imposed a consumer carbon tax on Alberta earlier this year, after Premier Jason Kenney’s government scrapped a tax created by his predecessor and launched a court challenge of the federal law. Mr. Kenney’s conservatives retained a carbon tax on the province’s largest industrial emitters. “The Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act is a massive and unprecedented peacetime non-emergency invasion of Alberta’s and other provinces’ jurisdiction,” he wrote.

“This assault on provincial jurisdiction could only be justified if Parliament validly claimed an environmental emergency that threatened life as we know it on planet earth and required an immediate and comprehensive response to dangerously high levels of greenhouse gas emissions,” he added. “In the absence of a valid environmental emergency, the federal and provincial governments must work together.

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Which leads to an accurate portrayal of Alberta as a jurisdiction which conducts irresponsible resource development projects. Because now they have nothing to show for a climate change action plan......

In AB

Nope. Canadian Supreme Court will overturn

Yes, I love the judges comments. Would allow Ottawa enormous powers if held up. That’s what it’s all about in Alberta. Keep it the corrupt Alberta way. Even the judges are redneck Hicks.

Tell that to TECK !

Nice picture, is that poison that is coming out of the stacks?

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