Alberta court kills illegal Federal Infringement on Provincial Jurisdiction in `historic victory' - National Post

Bill C-69, passed by the Trudeau government in 2019, gave Ottawa the power to consider the effect of resource projects on environmental and social issues — including climate change

  .. "Alberta’s top court shot down a keystone piece of the Liberal government’s environmental legislation, calling it a “clear and present danger” to Canada’s constitutional order.

In 2019, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government passed Bill C-69, a piece of legislation that overhauled the approvals process for major infrastructure projects in Canada, and gave Ottawa the power to consider the effect of resource projects on environmental and social issues — including climate change. ...

Dubbed the “no more pipelines law” by Kenney’s United Conservatives, the Alberta government went to court in September 2019, seeking to have the legislation — officially the Impact Assessment Act — declared unconstitutional in what’s known as a reference case. On Tuesday, the court did so, declaring the legislation “a classic example of legislative creep” as the federal government used the cover of environmentalism to expand its powers. While it noted that climate change constitutes an “existential threat,” the bill was itself a threat to Canadian federalism and the division of powers. ...

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