Western Standard - September 16, 2022


The Great Sovereignty Act Debate clip


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1 minute

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349

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The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that the Alberta government can ignore a ruling from the Supreme Court regarding climate change. But what does this mean for the rule of law? And why does this matter?

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00:00:00.000 your document says if we decide if the alberta legislature decides that the government is being
00:00:07.440 lawless that we can ignore a court ruling that we also think is lawless and i'll just get back
00:00:12.000 to my analogy if the referee says it was high sticking but he was wrong or at least i strongly
00:00:16.880 think he's wrong can i just say well i'm not going to the penalty box okay so your analogy
00:00:22.560 doesn't work and here's why it's because it it it puts us into the game we're not alberta government
00:00:28.560 is not a player in a hockey game we're not we're not a sub a subject of the federal government
00:00:35.120 it the the provincial government is another order of government that is equal but distinct
00:00:40.320 and so really what it is is uh it's it doesn't fit in the sense that we've decided we're going to be
00:00:47.520 subject to uh what whatever ottawa desires now this is the important thing and all this preamble about
00:00:54.160 the rule of law has been leading towards this but there you understand the analogy i do understand
00:00:58.640 the analogy and i don't think it works i briefed i briefed the alberta i did a briefing as the justice
00:01:03.520 asked about that case and uh you know they they they took a lot of what i told them but the problem
00:01:09.600 the one thing that they didn't do is i said you cannot let stand as a statement of fact that there
00:01:15.920 is a climate emergency because if you do then then in the when there's a climate emergency getting
00:01:23.040 back to rule of law issues i think that the supreme court may decide that because it's an emergency
00:01:30.160 there in a in a democratic and free society this will be a reasonable use of the peace order and
00:01:36.400 good government clause to override provincial rights and the alberta none of the provinces ontario
00:01:42.080 saskatchewan didn't touch it at all you can become a western standard member for just ten dollars a
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