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Both Alberta and Saskatchewan are fighting federal government regulations banning coal and gas-fired power after 2035.
Canada’s environment minister is threatening to punish Saskatchewan if it ignores a ban on coal.
On Wednesday, May 17, during the question period in the House of Commons, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault declared that violating environmental regulations banning the use of coal and gas-fired power after 2035 could result in criminal sanctions. Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe had stated that the province would continue to run their plants.
Moe said that completely outlawing coal and natural gas from power generation by 2035 is both expensive and impractical. “The federal government’s standards for zero emission electrical generation by 2035 are unrealistic and unaffordable,” he said.
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Resource extrapolation and use are a provincial area of responsibility since the British North America Act. That is to say, the feds have no jurisdiction. As Americans know full well, constitutional provisions mean little when petty tyrants decide they mean little.
As Americans also know, relying on a Supreme Court to protect citizens and States(Provinces) from constitutional overreach is futile. They don’t like pissing into the wind, and petty tyrants are nothing if not windy!
Idiot Liberals should also know that one parliament can not bind another. Any future government can and will put nonsensical legislation such as this in the “Pierre Eliot Trudeau Fuddle Duddle File” where the small ideas of smaller men go to die.