Provinces Fighting the Federal Carbon Tax Are ‘Constitutionally Capable’ of Winning, Expert Says

Provinces Fighting the Federal Carbon Tax Are ‘Constitutionally Capable’ of Winning, Expert Says
A dump truck works near the Syncrude oil sands extraction facility near Fort McMurray, Alberta, in a file photo. The Canadian Press/Jason Franson
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The design of Ottawa’s Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act, a.k.a. the carbon tax, could be the law’s ultimate undoing, says a Canadian constitutional expert.

The legislation, the centrepiece of the Trudeau government’s war on climate change, is the subject of ongoing legal challenges by four provinces, which argue that it amounts to jurisdictional overreach.