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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
Tooth and nail with the understanding that what may actually be wrong about the carbon tax was that federal taxes are supposed to be implemented equally across the country, allowing provinces to implement their own (again under constraints set and approval received from the federal government) was what was wrong. If they win, all it means is that the federal (Liberal) government will have to come up with the exact carbon tax giving no control to the province. So winning is losing until the Liberals are out.
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Which seems to me to be the plan - this system falls by the wayside, the matter is reverted back to the federal government, and the Liberals don't have time to enact new carbon tax legislation before the next election. The CPC then promises to just leave it in the grave. Not a terrible strategy, on the whole.
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It still needed to get approved at the federal level. Not really sure what you think could have been implemented that would have been "benign."
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Tax policy is pretty malleable. I don't have a specific carbon tax proposal because no one is paying me to develop one, but there are plenty of offsets you could design to take the sting out of it or otherwise improve it. Even BC's version is better than Alberta's, in my view, but I'm sure I'd get some pushback on that from the resident UCPers.
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Preventing pipelines in your province is a different beast than constructing them in a different province. It shouldn't be, but of course it is.
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Perhaps, but there are some crazy options out there to really put the screws to BC and create an "if you don't do something to fix this we're going to make things difficult for everyone else" situation for the federal government. You might say that many of those are unconstitutional, or abuses of process, or otherwise illegal, or in any event generally underhanded. But in the view of many people in this province, so is what's been done to Alberta, so nothing's off the table. As I say, I can fully understand that sentiment, even though I'm sure some of the vengeful options that might be floated are nothing I'll sign on for.