The Alberta government, joined by Sask and Ontario recently launched a court challenge attacking the legality of Chairman Trudeau’s federal carbon tax.
You see, according to the Canadian Constitution, certain powers are delegated to the provinces. Resources, their distribution and taxation are provincial matters while defense and criminal law are federal. (just to name a few)
The supreme court agreed that resources are the domain of the provinces but ruled in favor of the federal carbon tax agreeing that the government’s declaration of a “climate change emergency” gave them the right to override the legal jurisdictions laid out in the Constitution.
That should scare everyone.
Healthcare is also under the provincial jurisdiction. Under the Covid lockdowns, some places got it really bad like Manitoba declaring what people can and can not buy. Or even riot police enforcing curfews and home invasion-inspections in Quebec.
Some places got it light like Alberta.
There are differences in Covid measures because healthcare is a provincial matter.
No longer.
Despite my personal opinion, Covid is considered a major emergency. The seemingly unrelated carbon tax challenge has paved the way for the federal government to take direct control of government quarantines including movement, private purchases and rationing. They will determine what people live and die by choosing essential workers. As a firearms professional, I know what list Trudeau is putting me in..
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