Back in March, the Supreme Court was hearing arguments in the federal government’s appeal of an Alberta court decision that struck down Ottawa’s Impact Assessment Act (IAA), often called the “No More Pipelines” law.
The Alberta Court of Appeal, which is not a particularly anti-Ottawa court, had ruled that while climate change posed an “existential threat” to the planet, the no-more-pipelines law posed “another existential threat” – to the existence of “Canada itself.”
