Federal Court rejects Manitoba’s argument against carbon price backstop – Winnipeg

The Manitoba authorities has misplaced a courtroom battle in opposition to the federal authorities’s value on carbon.

A Federal Court docket choose has rejected Manitoba’s declare that Ottawa didn’t act correctly in imposing a minimal value on carbon as a result of Manitoba was planning its personal lower cost.

Justice Richard Mosley says the federal authorities’s actions have been in keeping with the aim of the greenhouse gasoline discount regulation and with guaranteeing that emissions pricing is utilized broadly in Canada.

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The choose additionally says Manitoba was mistaken in stating that its plan to scale back emissions was as efficient because the federal plan.

The Supreme Court docket of Canada dominated in March that Ottawa has the proper to impose carbon pricing on provinces, however Manitoba continued with its case by arguing it had an efficient carbon discount plan.

Former Manitoba premier Brian Pallister deliberate to have a flat $25 per tonne value on carbon, not like the escalating federal one, however withdrew the plan when Ottawa imposed its personal.

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