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Timing Important in Saskatchewan Court Challenge of Imposed Carbon Tax
Don Morgan - Minister of Justice Saskatchewan

Farmscape for September 5, 2018

Saskatchewan's Attorney General remains hopeful that a court challenge of the Federal Government's plan to impose carbon pricing on any province's that fails to voluntarily do so will be heard before that plan moves forward.
In April the Government of Saskatchewan launched a constitutional reference case in the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal to challenge the federal government’s authority to impose a carbon tax on the province.
Don Morgan, Saskatchewan's Attorney General and Minister of Justice, says the challenge is based on the fact that the federal government intends to have a different carbon pricing structure in each province, depending on how compliant each province is with what the federal government wants, so this is not a tax but rather a punitive measure to direct policy the province doesn't support.

Clip-Don Morgan-Minister of Justice Saskatchewan:
We have filed the notice and then it's up to the court to set and control the timeline.
They have allowed other jurisdictions, in particular the federal government and other provinces, to file their notices over the next few months and then the application would be heard likely reasonably early in the new year.
We would very much like to have had a decision from them prior to the proposed implementation date by the federal government which was set for January 1st so we're watching carefully and we're trying to expedite the process as quickly as we can and what we're hoping the Federal Government will do is say, we think we should wait until after the courts have had the chance to adjudicate on this to determine and review what's taken place.
The timing is important to us because we want to make sure it's done before the imposition of the federal tax.
We certainly don't want to have to be dealing with it afterwards so we're going as quickly as we can and we're hoping the federal government will wait.

Morgan says Saskatchewan believes any imposition of carbon pricing is constitutionally wrong and will be highly damaging to the province.
For Farmscape.Ca, I'm Bruce Cochrane.


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