Juno News - Alberta takes Trudeau to court over plastic ban

00:00:00.000 hey everyone welcome back to the alberta roundup i'm your host rachel emmanuel let's take a look

00:00:16.800 at what we're going to be talking about here today the alberta government will join plastic

00:00:20.240 makers in a court challenge of the federal government's plastic ban the government will

00:00:24.000 also seize non-essential business for 10 days to mourn the passing of queen elizabeth ii the

00:00:29.040 province is increasing funding to its chief firearms officer's office to speed up gun

00:00:33.520 transfers and licenses meanwhile an alberta university is canceling its ice hockey intramurals

00:00:38.640 to be more inclusive edmonton is the latest city to want to ban single-use plastics and of course

00:00:43.520 we'll have our ucp leadership race update let's jump into today's topics the alberta government

00:00:47.760 has filed notice with the federal court to intervene in a legal challenge of the trudeau government's

00:00:52.160 move to list all plastics as a toxic substance under the canadian environmental protection act

00:00:56.960 in august more than two dozen plastic makers who united under the banner of the responsible

00:01:01.200 plastic use coalition asked the federal court to put an end to ottawa's impending ban the 29 billion

00:01:06.480 industry is also suing the federal government for listing plastic as toxic the alberta government

00:01:11.440 is intervening in both these cases here is what premier kenny had to say about it no because they're

00:01:16.320 not you're pulling the plastic phone there i don't think you're you're i don't think you believe

00:01:21.120 that it has the toxicity of arsenic which is the the same category under which this has been listed

00:01:28.320 so we cannot live our modern lives without petrochemical products without plastic products

00:01:34.720 we cannot achieve carbon reduction goals without the efficiency the lightness of plastic products

00:01:43.360 the plastics industry is very focused with the support of provincial governments

00:01:47.840 the premier also said he hopes quebec and ontario will join in intervening as both those provinces

00:01:53.040 have large petrochemical industries as well the alberta government will seize all non-essential

00:01:57.600 communication and business for the next 10 days to mourn the passing of queen elizabeth ii

00:02:02.480 the queen passed away on thursday afternoon at belmoro castle while surrounded by her family

00:02:07.120 she leaves behind a legacy unmatched in history as the longest reigning british monarch

00:02:11.360 in february elizabeth became the first british monarch to celebrate a platinum jubilee

00:02:15.520 marking a historic 70 years on the throne a lot of us feel much sadness at her passing she certainly

00:02:21.360 embodied many qualities we seem to have lost today in society like grace duty and sacrifice moving

00:02:26.880 back into alberta politics the province is increasing support to its chief firearms officer

00:02:31.280 by over 700 000 this year to speed up the process of gun licenses and transfers since the federal

00:02:37.360 government announced an impending ban on handgun sales and transfers albertans have rushed to buy

00:02:42.400 or transfer handguns while they still can justice minister tyler shandro said the funding will enable

00:02:47.120 chief firearms officer terry bryant to hire more staff to process license applications transfers

00:02:52.720 authorizations to carry and more all while from alberta here's what terry bryant had to say about it

00:02:59.200 today's announcement will support us in adequately staffing our office with the focus on hiring local

00:03:05.600 to better serve albertans it will significantly enhance our level of service to align with the

00:03:11.280 expectations of albertans in keeping our community safe and it will support our work which helps

00:03:17.440 sustain economic activity associated with lawful firearms ownership in alberta through inspections

00:03:22.960 and approvals of shooting ranges as well as supporting firearms businesses let's move into the

00:03:27.600 controversy of the week alberta's mount royal university is canceling its ice hockey intramurals to be more

00:03:33.440 accessible and inclusive in a statement the university said it conducted an analysis to work

00:03:37.840 towards quote achieving an accessible and inclusive program where all feel they belong

00:03:42.400 mount royal said evidence shows ice hockey creates a sense of belonging for some but there are still

00:03:46.880 critical areas that require improvement i'm wondering if the people that were not able to play ice hockey

00:03:52.000 now feel included because nobody gets to play at all what do you think what we're going to be

00:03:56.240 watching in the weeks to come edmonton is the latest city to consider a ban on single-use plastic items

00:04:01.360 the city of edmonton is considering banning businesses from offering customers single-use

00:04:05.200 plastic items like shopping bags and foam cups the proposed bylaw would reduce the number of single

00:04:10.000 use items used and discarded in edmonton and begin to quote shift the habits of edmontonians

00:04:14.960 visitors businesses and other organizations to make reusable alternatives their default choice

00:04:20.160 end quote the bylaw would work by mandating a minimum fee for new paper shopping bags and new

00:04:24.960 reusable shopping bags as well customers must request utensils for single-use accessories made of any

00:04:30.160 material restaurants can't just hand them out and there would be an outright ban on plastic

00:04:34.560 shopping bags and styrofoam service wear it's probably worth noting a 2011 research paper which

00:04:38.960 found it takes more than four times as much energy to manufacture a paper bag as it does to

00:04:44.000 manufacture a plastic bag okay guys let's jump into our ucp leadership race update albertans have

00:04:49.200 started to receive their ballots to vote in the ucp leadership contest of course there's also the

00:04:53.600 option to vote in person on october 6 the same day the new leader and primer will be announced

00:04:59.040 for those who aren't sure how the preferred ballot works be sure to check out my explainer online

00:05:03.200 this week danielle smith released highly anticipated details of her alberta sovereignty act we've talked

00:05:07.840 about this so many times you guys know what this is by now but for first-time listeners the alberta

00:05:12.000 sovereignty act essentially would bar any federal legislation deemed harmful to alberta and its

00:05:16.400 interest danielle smith has said it could be used to push back federal covet 19 vaccine mandates

00:05:21.360 gun control legislation and bill c69 which of course overhauls the regulatory approval process for major

00:05:27.920 energy projects or as danielle smith calls it the no more building anything in alberta ever again

00:05:33.520 without federal approval bill so here's how the sovereignty act works according to new details

00:05:39.200 released by smith this week smith said each motion would include identification of the federal law

00:05:44.560 deemed to be in violation of the constitution or charter the constitutional explanation for making

00:05:49.200 that claim an explanation of the harms on albertans a description of the specific action the

00:05:54.400 province would take to refuse the federal law and a declaration of non-enforcement if a court stays

00:06:00.400 or deems an alberta sovereignty act special motion to be unconstitutional the government and the

00:06:05.200 legislature would decide whether to amend and or continue with a special motion understanding the

00:06:10.400 legal implications such a decision could cause unfortunately for her smith's new details did not

00:06:15.280 appease her opponents four of them banded together and held a press conference on thursday to show their

00:06:19.680 unity in opposition to the proposal travis taves brian gene rajansani and leela ahir all attended

00:06:25.840 here's what travis taves had to say but the sovereignty act is not the way we win it's been

00:06:32.080 pitched as the cure-all for alberta's position within the nation but the act is a false bill of goods that

00:06:38.960 is simply more political bluster will not deliver the expected outcomes and will create anger and

00:06:45.040 disillusionment amongst albertans notably absent from the press conference were rebecca schultz and todd

00:06:50.320 lowen gene said all the candidates were invited except for danielle smith and it was a political

00:06:55.680 decision whether or not to attend following the press conference schultz released a statement saying

00:07:00.480 she doesn't support the act because it quote doesn't do what people say it's going to do end quote

00:07:05.600 she did not say whether she would vote for the sovereignty act if it reached the legislature floor

00:07:10.160 in a video posted to social media lowen said the press conference showed disunity and desperation

00:07:14.640 quote i wish those candidates would stand up against prime minister justin trudeau as strong

00:07:18.880 as they stand up against the sovereignty act end quote all right guys let's end with our alberta

00:07:23.840 politics funny moment of the week global news was forced to delete a tweet after premier jason kenney

00:07:28.960 said a mountain was named after queen elizabeth ii when it was actually named after queen elizabeth

00:07:33.200 of belgium he was of course referencing mount queen elizabeth located on the border of alberta and british

00:07:37.760 columbia it was named after the belgium queen in 1916. don't worry premier we all make mistakes

00:07:44.320 i should know okay guys that's all for me today thanks for tuning in if you support our work at

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Juno News - September 10, 2022

Alberta takes Trudeau to court over plastic ban

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