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Originally Posted by BoLevi
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
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. |
Except they have taxed province-owned natural resources successfully. Of course it was taken to the courts, but unfortunately for Smith and people who believe her secret plan is just so simple, the Supreme Court found otherwise. Nobody has described slapping an export tax on oil as easy or without consequence or resistance. It would meet plenty of it. Those are your descriptors. I prefer facts.
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Moreover, there is no principle of provincial Crown immunity from federal legislative authority, whether regulatory authority or tax authority, once a provincial Crown purports to enter the export field and engage in international transactions. That is this case. Indeed, the national government would become hostage to Crowns in right of the province if the latter could transcend general federal control of international trade simply by asserting that it was bringing Crown properties into the international market.
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There is no doubt of the federal government’s constitutional right to impose export taxes on any commodity. To deny this is to attempt to extend provincial powers well beyond their present constitutional limits. The federal government imposed an export tax on electricity for 38 years, from 1925 to 1963. Similarly, the federal government established a tax on oil exports in 1973. It continues to impose this tax.
A tax on natural gas exports is not discriminatory. These exports have earned enormous economic rents as their price has soared due to OPEC’s price increases. Taxation based on the ability to pay is in accord with long-established principles.
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But sure, I guess we’ll find out. Not everyone has the maturity to admit when their wrong, so I understand why you won’t, but you really should have some understanding of the basics before dressing your opinion up as facts, as it’s only you you’ll embarrass.
The UCP is no stranger to attempting and failing at things they can’t do, attempting and failing to act outside of their jurisdiction, and blowing significant tax payer dollars on half baked schemes. But who knows, maybe they’ll get one right.