12-03-2018, 11:54 AM
(12-01-2018, 12:12 PM)panamaniac Wrote:(12-01-2018, 11:48 AM)KevinT Wrote: I never even thought of it that way, but thanks! Incidentally the federal rule was always that if the provinces wouldn't implement the tax the feds would do it for them. This was known long before Doug scrapped Ontario's cap and trade.
Subject to the outcome of the current court challenges by several provinces, that remains the plan.
Subject to the court challenge, yes. But most legal experts expect the challenge to fail, as the federal government is within its constitutional rights to do this. (I'm not a lawyer, so just repeating what I have been reading for the past six months or so.) But given that the Ontario government has a large surplus and nothing else that needs funding, it's probably a great plan to spend the money on lawyers.