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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
The bolded is clear, because in addition to not knowing who owns the oil, how import and exports work and who has jurisdiction over what, you’re wrong about the constitution.
As stated, exports of natural resources falls under federal jurisdiction. Crown corporations or other entities, whether owned by the provincial government or not, are not exempt from any export taxes on those resources.
Alberta already owns the natural resources. No paper transactions are required to put ownership in their name. They already own it. And provincial crown corporations, while immune from federal income tax and have some tax immunity generally, lose part of that immunity when they operate as commercial entities as opposed to activities integral to the functional of the government. Among the federal taxes they are not immune to are both the GST/HST and, you guessed it, export taxes, as that is the sole jurisdiction of the federal government.
Perhaps ideology is blinding you a bit and causing confusing between what is true and what you want to be true, but sorry, the facts are not on your side.
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Whether you are correct, or Smith has a workable solution by doing this is what we will find out. Her gov't seems to have been very effective at finding these
loopholes solutions. Her wording was carefully non-specific.
This is all we know about what they are planning.
https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/co...-tariff-crisis
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They’re looking at creating a public body that would buy all private oil and gas intended for export to the U.S.
That would inoculate Alberta petroleum products against a federal export tax, because one Canadian government can’t tax another.
“It’s ridiculous that we have to worry so much about Liberal Ottawa in a situation like this, but it’s the way things are,” said one official.
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If it was so easy to just slap an export tax on oil, without severe political and legal consequences, the feds would have done it long ago. Well, they tried it twice and failed.