Like Saskatchewan lost theirs.  When will they start to think about the   
   quality of their air and water and soil - and especially their extreme weather   
   events - instead of how much money they can make extracting and exporting   
   bitumen to countries like    
   China?   
      
   The voters of these money-driven provinces are going to have to get real one   
   day.   
   It may be the day they're flooded out of their homes, burned out by wildfires,   
   or unable to drink water from their taps because of an industry's   
   contamination.   
      
   Some day maybe they won't be so eager to trade their homes and lives for money.   
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   Updated: June 28, 2019 3:33 pm   
      
   Ontario court rules federal government’s carbon-pricing law is constitutional   
      
   TORONTO – Ontario’s top court has ruled the federal government’s carbon   
   pricing system is constitutionally sound and has the critical purpose of   
   fighting climate change.   
      
   A panel of the Ontario Court of Appeal says in a split decision that   
   Parliament has the jurisdiction to legislate in relation to matters of   
   “national concern.”   
      
   Doug Ford's Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government had argued the   
   federal carbon pricing scheme is a violation of the Constitution because it   
   allows the federal government to intrude on provincial jurisdiction.   
      
   But the majority of the Appeal Court rejected Ontario’s contention that the   
   carbon levy is an illegal tax.   
      
   In a dissenting opinion, Justice Grant Huscroft disagreed that climate change   
   amounts to an “emergency case” and warned against allowing rhetoric to   
   colour the constitutional analysis.   
      
   The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal issued a similar split decision last month in   
   favour of the federal government, which that province intends to challenge in   
   the Supreme Court of Canada.   
      
   Federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says today’s ruling is good   
   news for everyone who believes the need for climate action is urgent.   
      
   She adds it’s unfortunate that Conservative premiers continue to waste   
   taxpayer dollars fighting climate action in court rather than taking real   
   action.   
      
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