The matter of carbon taxes and whether Ottawa retained ultimate authority to impose them on recalcitrant provinces under the auspices of fighting climate change finally had its day in Canada’s highest court, and the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act was deemed constitutionally sound.
Proponents of the federal policy lauded the 6–3 split decision, but University of Saskatchewan professor Dwight Newman, the Canada research chair in indigenous rights in constitutional and international law, says it could have profound effects on the Federation.
