In this Jan. 20, 2015 file photo, steam billows from the chimney or a coal-fired Merrimack Station in Bow, N.H. TORONTO -- The federal government says Ontario is being "alarmist" in its fight against Ottawa's carbon pricing law.A provincial lawyer on Monday told Ontario's top court the law is unconstitutional because it strays far into provincial powers.
In her submissions to the Ontario Court of Appeal, Sharlene Telles-Langdon stressed the urgency in reducing greenhouse gas emissions to stop global warming scientists say will be catastrophic. The provinces, she said, simply can't do it on their own. At issue is the validity of federal legislation that kicked in on April 1 and which imposes 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.
The Court has clear the Power the Federal Government as high authority in matter of General issues and the Province is below it
Doug's propaganda and lie machine in full force.
Gas taxes: Federal goverment 5% GST. And maybe another 3 to5% Carbon tax. Ontario's Provincial taxes on gas per $1 spent 14.7% gas tax and another 8% Provincial tax. So who is really driving up the cost of gas. Ford is. onpoli
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