The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled the Carbon Tax is fair and constitutional allowing the Trudeau government to impose a carbon price across the country to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
In the majority vote, six of nine judges on Canada’s top court upheld the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act as constitutional in its entirety.
This shuts down legal challenges brought on from other levels of government in Ontario, Alberta and Saskatchewan arguing the law interfered with provincial jurisdiction.
The court sided with the feds who said they have the authority to impose the minimum carbon price to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as its become a “national concern” under the constitutions “peace, order and good government” clause.
The federal minimum price is set to $30 per tonne of emissions which the Liberal government intends to raise until it hits $170 per tonne in 2030.
