[QUOTE=Makarov;9305177]Let's just accept, for the sake of argument, that Alberta is prepared to essentially nationalize energy exporting in Alberta. And let's also suppose that, for some reason, the federal Crown lacks the constitutional authority to charge a tariff to a provincial Crown (I have no idea whether or not this is true - I don't see any obvious reason why it would be true but I'm not going to spend any time thinking about it because of the following).
If those two things are true, the federal government will just achieve its policy goal (of inflicting economic harm on the United States) by prohibiting the export of energy to the United States.
can you point to the specific part of the constitution that allows the federal government to restrict the provinces from exporting/selling their resources outside the country? I found information on section 92A of the constitution amendment but that deals with exports/imports between provinces and not to foreign exports.
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