At issue is the validity of Liberal government legislation that kicked in on April 1 and imposed a charge on gasoline and other fossil fuels as well as on industrial polluters. The law applies in those provinces that have no carbon-pricing regime of their own that meets national standards.
Carissima Mathen, a law professor at the University of Ottawa who has written a book on cases in which governments refer issues to higher courts, said Ford is trying to position himself as defending Ontarians from an over-reaching central authority. In essence, Ontario argues Ottawa is intruding on provincial jurisdiction by trying to regulate the "nearly limitless swath of human activity" that produces climate-changing pollution.
Putting a price on carbon, Ottawa asserts, is widely recognized as an "effective and essential measure" to encourage behavioural changes needed to reduce global-warming emissions. The money raised from what it characterizes as a legitimate fee will flow back to the jurisdiction where it was collected, Ottawa says.
David Estrin, a veteran environmental law specialist at Osgoode Hall Law School, said Ford is using judges as a "political gambit." The federal law, he said, applies in Ontario only because Ford scrapped the provincial carbon strategy that was in place under the previous government, launched the court challenge, and now seeks to impose what amounts to his own levy on big polluters.
For those against carbon tax I trust you will do the right thing and not claim your rebate.
Evidence for the defence...
If Ford does a splash from the top turnbuckle on Trudeau then it's game over folks.
Taxation is theft
You want to take the federal government to court but you don't want people of Ontario to take the provincial government to court you are a hypocrite.
Thank god for Ford standing up to Trudeau’s nonsense of making everything more expensive for nothing in return.
Just great, we fund both sides of the conflict, what could go right?
Trudeau looked like that listening to Trump, too! Lol
Fuk the federal government!!
C'mon Canadians, pay your carbon tax, Wal-Mart needs new fridges, too.
The money Ontario is paying for that !!
This sounds expensive.
Wow, Ford even copies Trump's crotch tie style