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The Government of Canada will be the star of the courtroom Thursday morning at the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal.
Its lawyers will have their three hours to lay out their arguments defending the carbon tax and parrying the province’s arguments that it’s unconstitutional.
The Government of Saskatchewan laid out most of its arguments on Wednesday, along with the intervenors who are also against the implementation of a carbon tax.
There are nine intervenors that support the tax, and they’ll speak Thursday afternoon.
Joshua Ginsberg is the lawyer representing the David Suzuki Foundation in the case. Ginsberg believes climate change is a national emergency over which the federal government needs to take action.
“What’s clear in the law is that when we are faced with an existential crisis like this, the federal government has the authority to act, and it has acted. That’s why we’re here defending that jurisdiction,” he said.
The Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation is also arguing that climate change is a big enough problem to require carbon pricing.
Amir Attaran is the counsel for the First Nation. He wasn’t impressed with the Saskatchewan government’s arguments on Wednesday, calling them weak.
When asked what’s at stake in this fight, Attaran said the future of this country and planet are at stake.
“What the federal government offers in a carbon price that’s refunded to consumers is the least painful way of dealing with this.”
The province will finish things off, with a half hour at the end of Thursday to address the intervenors’ arguments.