Blacklocks- $42M In 14 Days Or Else: Feds
The Agency on June 25 then issued a Requirement To Pay notice to the Province’s account holders, the Royal Bank of Canada. The Agency claims Saskatchewan now owes a total $55,592,632 in carbon taxes plus $237,140 interest.
“They started with the threats,” Attorney General Eyre said in a statement. The federal cabinet was “threatening us again with their favourite move when someone disagrees with them,” she said.
“They are sending the Canada Revenue Agency after the Province’s bank accounts,” said Eyre. “That is what they are doing.”
Update, by Kate:
The Saskatchewan Party says its application for a court injunction to stop the Canada Revenue Agency from collecting the federal carbon tax from the province has succeeded.
“The court ruled in our favour, blocking the federal government from unconstitutionally garnishing money, pending the full hearing and determination of the continuation of the injunction by the Federal Court,” Bronwyn Eyre, the provincial justice minister and attorney general said Monday.
Eyre said garnishing a provincial bank account violates Section 126 of Canada’s constitution. The issue will now go a full hearing.
That’s the Saskatchewan Government, you tools.