Jurisdictional Control Within Canada ｜ A Critical Compass Clip
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Summary
In this episode of the podcast, we discuss the abortion debate in Canada, the role of the Supreme Court of Canada, and the importance of standing up to the federal government. We also discuss the role municipal governments can play in challenging federal laws and regulations and the role they play in dealing with local issues.
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when the federal government enacted the emergencies act and it froze bank accounts
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it demanded that banks across canada froze bank accounts and all the banks complied
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what danielle smith said then was any banks that are alberta-based credit union she would say
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don't abide by that and one thing to understand about uh provincial versus federal jurisdiction
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is property rights and um are provincial and then both provincial and federal government can have
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bank they're regulated that's the one under provincial laws and then there's national laws
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and so any banks that would have been under provincial law she said that she would just be
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like that's not enforceable here in alberta so there's ways of saying it and doing things at
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on on this particular issue i don't know exactly the background the health part is very interesting
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and i think that actually goes to your point earlier when you mentioned roe v wade because
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i feel like that that was a demonstration in the u.s of how regardless of what your feelings on
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the actual abortion issue are i think most legal people would like legal people there's a good way
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of saying most lawyers and judges and uh um you know legal scholars would agree that that was just
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a ruling of that was just good legal interpretation because it it brought the it brought abortion
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legislation back fully into the purview of the states if i'm if i understand it correctly yes and
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that it's the same here in in canada and then actually i just remembered to lacrete which is a small
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community in alberta they said we're not enforcing anything that covet related and so there you had um
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you know a municipality that didn't abide by any provincial mandates or federal mandates they said no
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and so there is the uh there's always an ability to fight or to question or to be civil disobedient
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you saw you see that with um saskatchewan challenging the federal government on the uh energy stuff and
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they said no and then they were going to take them to court like these things are good to challenge i
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think that we need to start taking standing up and and then seeing what happens like what's the worst that's
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gonna happen really well exactly right and i mean it just it there's a i feel like there's a there's
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a feeling among certain people not not of our you know particular political views but maybe the
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maybe the prevailing view of uh most people who aren't you know fully potentially like psychotically
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invested into the stuff like i am but the the general canadian uh uh person's view of of government is
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very trusting and very like almost blasé about it very like oh you know they're probably doing the
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right thing for the right reasons but if you have that attitude then you just you know as we saw you
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leave yourself open to potentially being taken advantage of by people who don't have everyone's
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best interest in mind there's also an aspect to that where um i think when people see a government
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party or a part of the government who shares their views they're more willing to imagine that
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government having more control and then it's not until you realize like oh well if we well what
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happens when somebody's in power who doesn't share your views then all that extra control is very very
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scary to them so it's this it's the difference it's the jurisdiction differences between federal
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provincial and municipal that gives a certain level of protection to individuals and communities
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depending on like your needs are different here then well obviously in quebec they have like you want
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a a town to run its own affairs because we like there's no possible way that a federal government
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would have the information and organizational ability to plan everything for every single little small
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town so um that's why we have a separation of power um and it's these checks and balances between these
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levels that it it has to be a battle because that's how we find out that's how we navigate and we get
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closer to truth we we need this kind of constant opposition and as soon as that opposition this push
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poll stops we're in a bad place because at no point will you ever naturally have a hundred percent
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agreement that will only happen if it's manufactured and top-down state control they there's no possible
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way for it to ever be able to like properly either plan an economy or handle social affairs or be able
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to navigate all these issues that are constantly in flux and need a whole bunch of people to to be
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constantly solving these problems um so i i feel like there's more power to the people if we reinforce
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each of these levels if we contribute if we participate uh rather than just throwing our our ball into the
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court into kind of the into just the federal just talking about federal issues or just dealing with
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it from the federal parties and saying like oh this is our last hope if if we just get this one party
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elected like well what about what about the provincial what about our what about our cities we have to