Juno News - April 15, 2019


Andrew Lawton at the Carbon Tax Trial


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2 minutes

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445

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Ontario is taking the federal government to court over a carbon tax it wants to impose on provinces that refuse to implement their own carbon tax of their own. Andrew Lutton, Lauren Lutton and Darron Darron Lutton explain what s at stake in this high profile case.

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00:00:00.000 I'm outside Osgoode Hall in downtown Toronto where for the next four days the provincial
00:00:14.940 government of Ontario will be taking the federal government's carbon tax to court.
00:00:19.080 This is, you well know by now, the tax that Justin Trudeau has imposed on provinces that
00:00:24.040 refuse to put a carbon tax of their own onto their citizens. It was one of the first orders
00:00:29.280 of business for the Doug Ford government in Ontario to eliminate the Kathleen Wynne cap
00:00:33.520 and trade that so many Ontarians thought was causing harm to the economy, to business and
00:00:38.820 not really doing a hoot for the environment. That's what's at stake here. Now the question
00:00:42.760 is not whether climate change is real or whether global warming is real. No, the question that's
00:00:47.500 going to be adjudicated here is whether the federal government has the constitutional jurisdiction
00:00:53.380 to impose such a tax on provinces basically as a penalty. But what's interesting is that
00:00:58.660 a lot of the interveners such as the Suzuki Foundation, for example, are putting forward
00:01:03.500 a vision on this that is actually about whether a carbon tax is a good idea environmentally.
00:01:09.960 And this is one thing that's very important to note because today there's actually a protest
00:01:13.980 scheduled where a bunch of environmental demonstrators are going to be protesting against the provincial
00:01:19.560 government's challenging of the carbon tax. And they're going to be saying that a carbon
00:01:23.320 tax is necessary. The British Columbia government has intervened in this case. And the BC government's
00:01:28.640 saying in its factum that a carbon tax is necessary because climate change is real and because
00:01:35.160 climate change doesn't respect provincial borders or boundaries. But none of these arguments
00:01:39.440 really get to the core of the constitutionality, which is what the Ontario Court of Appeal and
00:01:44.340 Judge McPherson specifically will be determining. And such a high profile case this is that for
00:01:50.240 the first time in about 12 years cameras will be allowed in the courtroom. The whole thing will
00:01:54.760 be live streamed. But ultimately the question is solely whether Justin Trudeau and his government
00:01:59.940 have overstepped their bounds and imposed something on provinces that is not constitutionally
00:02:05.060 within their mandate. We'll be in the courtroom for the next four days. It's going to be probably a
00:02:09.680 real barn burner at some points and perhaps a little drier at others. But that's why we're here
00:02:14.040 because this is one of the most critical fights that is taking place not just in provincial elections
00:02:18.700 and in provinces across the country, but at the federal level as well. For True North, I'm Andrew Lutton.
00:02:24.760 Lauren Lutton
00:02:27.200 founded in Utah
00:02:29.520 Darron
00:02:30.120 Darron
00:02:32.140 Darron
00:02:33.220 Darron