It remains to be seen how far the province can go while keeping its response under the sovereignty act within "the extent legally permissible," as it aims to do
Testing her newly passed sovereignty act, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is asking the Alberta legislature to join her in requiring provincial officials and agencies to ignore the feds' 2035 net-zero electricity plans "to the extent legally permissible." But what that phrase will mean in practical terms is uncertain.
"Who decides
what the extent of the law is?" asks Nelson Wiseman, professor emeritus
of political science at the University of Toronto. His answer is: "The
courts." ---More...
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