The matter of carbon taxes and whether Ottawa retained ultimate authority to impose them on recalcitrant provinces under the auspices of fighting climate change finally had its day in Canada’s highest court, and the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act was deemed constitutionally sound. Proponents of the federal policy lauded the 6–3 split decision, but University of Saskatchewan professor Dwight Newman, the Canada research chair in indigenous rights in constitutional and international law, says it could have profound effects on the Federation. “I think that the majority has actually changed parts of the Peace, Order, and Good Government national concern test. They ended up saying there can be a double aspect in matters that are under the national concern test,” he told The Epoch Times. Newman suspects that the very design of the carbon pricing act to exempt provinces with their own schemes was an admission that the provinces were “constitutionally …
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