Fri Oct 13, 2023 – 3:38 pm EDT
OTTAWA, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) — The Supreme Court of Canada has declared that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government’s Impact Assessment Act, dubbed the “no-more pipelines” bill, is mostly “unconstitutional.”
On October 13, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada Richard Wagner announced that the court voted 5-2 to find Ottawa’s 2019 Impact Assessment Act (IAA), previously known as Bill C-69, largely unconstitutional.
“The balance of the scheme … is ultra vires (beyond the powers of) Parliament and thus unconstitutional,” Chief Justice Richard Wagner wrote in the ruling.
Essentially, the 2019 law allowed the federal government to intervene heavily on the approvals process of provincial natural resource projects, so that before approving projects, province’s were forced to align them with the Liberal’s social and “climate change” priorities.
Wagner ruled that the process in Sections 81 to 91 of the IAA were constitutional and could be separated out from the rest of the bill.
Sections 81 to 91 refer to projects under federal authority on federal lands, or outside Canada. Therefore, those projects would fall under federal jurisdiction and are not unconstitutional for the federal government to regulate.
However, Wagner declared
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