“They pushed us to the limit,” Danielle Smith says in fighting oil and gas emissions cap. Saskatchewan has already started on this path.
Expect similar action from Saskatchewan in the next 10 days. If you remember back in September, Saskatchewan issued its Economic Impact Assessment Tribunal take on this emissions cap, calling it a production cap.
Sask NDP gas tax motion runs out of gas
This is the way to push back against the tyranny of the Trudeau Liberal government. Use provincial powers to stop the federal government from interfering in provincial jurisdiction. Quebec has been doing this for decades, successfully. Of course the chattering class in central Canada will have a hissy fit but who cares.
Having the energy industry report only to the province, instead of the federal government, gives the corporations protection from the federal government. The federal government will have to deal with provinces instead of threatening private corporations. Saskatchewan farmers and RMs (rural municipalities) used the same method during a proprty tax revolt a couple of decades ago : the farmers paid the property taxes to the RMs, the RMs withheld the taxes from the provincial government. That way the farmers were in compliance with the tax laws while the RMs negotiated with the provincial government.
The power of a US President who’s party controls the house and senate is constrained by State governors, the SC and the Senate itself. In Canada a prime minister with a majority government rules unchecked.
The Canadian Constitution is supposed to keep the federal government in check but, via “creative” interpretations of the constitution, they have become a rubber stamp for Liberal Prime Ministers and a roadblock for Conservative governments, as does the Canadian Senate.
People seem to forget that the Founding Fathers of the United States of America were fully aware of what a Westminster parliament was and how it worked, and deliberately rejected it as a model.
“ These actions could include an immediate constitutional challenge in the courts”
And therein lies the rub. What will Alberta and Saskatchewan do when the Supreme Court predictably decides in favour of the a federal government? A court made up of 3 judges from Quebec, 3 from Ontario and 3 from the rest of CON-federation!
The Trudeau Liberal government will be gone long before the Supreme Court hears the constitutional challenge. The new Conservative federal government will end the attacks on the oil and gas industry.
You do make a good point though that Alberta and Saskatchewan rarely get a fair judgment at the supreme court level. The Canadian Senate is no better. I doubt there’s any way to change the bias against the two provinces under the Canadian governing system. The only solution is to copy what Quebec does – operate like an independent nation within Canada.
Alberta and Saskatchewan are the wealthiest provinces in Canada (by GDP per capita) so they should use that wealth to pursue their own economic interests. Enough with decades of being shackled and hobbled by central Canadian politicians.
“The only solution is to copy what Quebec does – operate like an independent nation within Canada.”
I’m always surprised that other provinces don’t flex every constitutional prerogative they possess within Confederation e.g., the Federal “dental plan” should have died a quick death and the RCMP should have been given the bum’s rush as provincial police long ago.
The message to Ottawa should always be: stay in your lane.
I suppose most people want to go along to get along and prefer to avoid confrontation. That has not worked well for Alberta and Saskatchewan. It’s good too see that they’re no longer okay with being the federal government’s doormat.
Canadians are cowards. Simple as.
One has to remember that the Supreme Court of Canada is totally corrupt and controlled by the liberal party and the Laurentian Elite, Both of them should be exiled to a foreign land
Yes, the Premiers knew that and that’s why they insisted on the notwithstanding clause in parts of the Charter. In retrospect, they probably should have also insisted that there was a right to invoke the notwithstanding clause in the section of the constitution that deals with provincial jurisdiction, to prevent court approved meddling by the federal government in the province’s jurisdiction .
This Liberal on Purpose attempt to Destroy the Ab/Sask Oil/Gas Industry over 100% Contrived Climate BS has to stop. I see no other way out of this than “its time to leave”.
My self, I would rather see Alberta/Sask tell the Laurentien elites….thanx, its been fun, be WE ARE OUT. Either we join together or go our seperate ways or Join the US as 51st/52nd states…(My preference).
Canada under the Liberals has become a de-industrialized woke anti-semtic filthy shithole where Child rapists get a 3 mo. term & peaceful protestors are sentenced to Decades, where the Convoy was peaceful and that supposedly deserved the EA…yet ISLAMIC FILTH rampages and near destroys Montreal & the LIbs call it something completely different.
Police routinely ignore this ISLAMIc Garbage but are hell bent on arresting Reporters that the Regime does not like.
The factual basis for the SCC carbon tax ruling has disappeared. The Feds presented evidence of the consensus that greenhouse gas emissions contribute to global climate change. Countries around the world committed to drastically reduce their greenhouse gas emissions under the 2015 Paris Agreement. In Canada, the federal government passed the Act to implement its commitments.
The Court noted that global warming causes harm beyond provincial boundaries and that it is a matter of national concern under the “peace, order and good government” clause of the Constitution. However, the federal government has the authority to act in appropriate cases, where there is a matter of genuine national concern and where the recognition of that matter is consistent with the division of powers.
When the Feds exempted heating oil from the carbon tax, they showed that there is not a genuine national concern about greenhouse gas emissions.
Alberta and Saskatchewan should ignore the Federal decisions that harm people and the provincial economies – – – just as the Feds did when convenient.
There is no factual basis for the carbon tax as there is no evidence that greenhouse gas emissions contribute to global climate change.
It’s a scam to control people’s lives, nothing else.
Except it’s a lie that “countries around the world committed to drastically reduce their greenhouse gas emissions”. China and India have essentially told the world to pound sand, and it is China specifically that benefits from this fraud.
Art, I 100% agree with you and Lupus.
But the SCC has made a determination based on “facts” presented by the Feds. There has been a substantial change in those facts. Now even the SCC, who seemed to accept the Feds bona fides, can no longer accept the facts they used to deprive the Provinces of their jurisdiction.
It is time for Alberta and Saskatchewan to reassert their jurisdiction. To the point of stopping any flow of goods to eastern Canada – and maybe charging a road tax on goods going from the west to the east.
It absolutely IS time to tell the feds to go straight to hell. As an aside, it is a fact that in 1991 Ukraine unilaterally decided to no longer follow the dictates of their overlords in Moscow and became independent from the Soviet Union. A good example to follow, perhaps.
It helped that the Soviet Union had ceased to exist. You want to bring down Canada, great! Do it and I’ll separate from it. First things first.
The thing is the looters and wreckers don’t care about facts or any arguments that might be mounted pointing out the scam that underpins what they plan and want to do and do indeed carry out.
Perhaps the Canadian people will now come to realize they have far more to fear from Trudeau than Trump. At least Trump is open to negotiation.
And frankly, he’s the better dancer. Lacks Trudeau’s agility but makes up for it in taste.
Why aren’t my comments not showing up ,… Am I banned or something?
I’ll try again. Nada ,,, this showed up by not the comment I made … WTF?
It’s just a bit glitchy at times. If your comments are pure of heart and not slanderous, Kate would never remove them.
Scan for words that include the letters “O”, “R”, and “C” in a row.
Posts with those sequences of letters get t0rched…
Ottawa Why will this show up and other posts don’t.
Censorship?
There are certain words that trigger the filter to not post the comment. The one that frequently gets me is any words with fxrce, like law enfxrcment or workfxrce. There may be others.
I am not allowed to post .. O . R . C . S. .. WITHOUT THE SPACING
The O.r.c.s Of Ottawa are trying to destroy Alberta …. Thank heavens for Premier Smith.
Finally the people in the west are putting down their banjos, climbing down off their turnip trucks and doing something. Whats this bs about Alberta Sovereignty with a united bananada? Screw the united bananada part. It should be renamed the Alberta Sovereignty and Hope the Eastern B*stards in the Old Country Freeze in the Dark Act.
Art, I 100% agree with you and Lupus.
But the SCC has made a determination based on “facts” presented by the Feds. There has been a substantial change in those facts. Now even the SCC, who seemed to accept the Feds bona fides, can no longer accept the facts they used to deprive the Provinces of their jurisdiction.
It is time for Alberta and Saskatchewan to reassert their jurisdiction. To the point of stopping any flow of goods to eastern Canada – and maybe charging a road tax on goods going from the west to the east.
And you will enfxrce this how? With the RCMP? An economic blockade needs guns.
Loughheed did it without guns.
He did no such thing. Pierre and his gang of thieves were ejected by the voters in 1984 in a landslide. The National Energy Program was immediately dead.
Now go back to school.
JW
There is something very wrong with the censorship on this site. I can say ‘mothers milk is good for newborns’ and it won’t make it as a post.
Right.
I will believe the Alberta Government.
When they change the tax collection system.
Limiting Government theft and using their possession of those collected tax dollars to starve Ottawa.
We need to stand the current system on its head.
No more taxation from far away unaccountable federales.
Tax,at no more than 10%, paid to local government.
Local pays 10% to Province.
Province pays feds for actual services provided..National defence,border security..
OK maybe no reason to pay feds anything.
Until the bureaus are starved and limited, nothing will change.
the Kleptocracy will roll on exponentially increasing the indebtedness of the shrinking base of tax payers.
Now as a beginning posture,Alberta and Saskatchewan can demand each and every privilege,perk and exemption that Quebec now enjoys.
No negotiation on these,as “we are all equal here”..
With our “Charter of Rights and Freedoms ” that only apply when our government is not in a state of panic..
The road to an independent western nation,linking the USA to Alaska,is gradual and then very sudden.
Just as fast as Confederated Canada’s bankruptcy.
Looks like it will be a “carbon tax election” after all, all the while twitchy and justy try to distract the electorate with vacuous platitudes and heaping on to the debt load of our grandchildren.
A word of caution if your thinking electing now a con-servative party lead by man who says all the right thinks. We have seen this movie….how many times before??
He will be beholding to those (majority) who bring him to the dance.
Mulroney won a second majority without needing one seat in western Canada.
“Let that sink in”
you stick with love of the liberals and you can weep with them when they are kicked to the curb
I think you misunderstood me Wally.
Yes and the libranos win majorities without needing a single seat in western Canada. Remember the elections where da liddle thief would run the table in Ontario?
If the Conservative win next time they might have 10 seats in quebek. They won’t tun the table in Ontario. Fishworld? They’ll win a few.
So PP be beholden to who?
Love the “Fishworld” trapper. 🙂
Looks like the Patience part has met it’s Limits part.
The supreme court only has one judge from the west, two from the Maritimes, three each from Quebec and Ontario.
The entire west has only 24 senators, appointed by the PMO to represent them. NB has 10. NS has 10. Postage Stamp PEI has four. NFL gets 6 too. 78 senators represent the east, all appointed by the PMO as well
Prince Edward Island population 172,707, gets 4 seats in HOC and population per seat 43,176
Alberta population 4,601,314 gets 37 seats in HOC and population per seat 124.359
The game is rigged and you will never get a fair deal.
Indeed.
Canada is not a real country. It’s a notion not a nation.
What democracy in the world operates a scheme like we do? I understand rep-by-pop but Canada is not satisfied with that tenant. The east has it’s thumb permanently on the scale.. and I haven’t even brought up quebekkie.
I’m not afraid to say this. Canada is a country for sale, and we are being marketed piece by piece to foreign countries by evil people. We will eventually lose the country by stealth, and become pawns of the foreign powers, or, the west, each province individually, could start the process of negotiating to become the 51st state. The choice is one between living free, on your own decisions and choices, or being sold into slavery through stealth.
I agree. Canada has always been for sale. For about 80 years after Confederation, Canada sought deeper and deeper ownership by British companies and defense agreements. For the last 80 years, it’s been to seek ownership by the United States. Canada has never been prepared to stand up on its own. Always it has sought out a nanny relationship.
Perhaps it is time to consider other options in dealing with a slim mandate which has been overstepped.
How about a super majority of premiers?
Separation for AB/Sask.