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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
See, this is what I'm saying - there seem to be two options after "Sovereignty Act" is brought into force.
First, the feds implement some law or policy that the AB legislature doesn't like, and the AB legislature says, "that's unconstitutional, you're treading on our provincial jurisdiction". This then ends up in court, either because the AB legislature is defying the Federal statute or because the AB legislature starts a court action challenging the federal statute. This winds up before the SCC, likely, which issues its ruling either in favour of the AB Legislature's position, or in favour of the Federal Government's position.
At this point, if things didn't go their way, the AB Legislature can either try to ignore the ruling of the Supreme Court - in which case they should be immediately sent to prison - or live with it and gripe about how they don't agree. The comments from Rob Anderson in the tweet above suggest that it's the latter one. But if that's right and it is the perfectly sane, non-go-to-prison option, that's just the status quo - that's exactly how things currently work. So there is no point to enacting this law.
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I believe the thinking is the province would defy the legislation and put the onus on the Feds to take them to court, vs. the current approach of suing the Feds. In either case it would be decided in the courts but the province gets to delay implementation (if they lose) and score points for standing up to Ottawa.