Saskatchewan To Seek Intervenor Status In Alberta’s Carbon Tax Court Case

By Carol Thomson Jun 20, 2019 | 5:17 PM

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The Government of Saskatchewan will be seeking intervenor status in Alberta’s reference case against the federal carbon tax. The United Conservative government announced today (Thursday) that it is asking the courts to look into the constitutionality of the federal government imposing the tax. Premier Scott Moe calls the tax harmful and ineffective and he is pleased to see the Alberta government file its reference case.

In early May, the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal ruled 3 – 2 that the federal government’s carbon tax on provinces that didn’t have sufficient plans of their own was constitutional and then on May 31st, the province officially launched its appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada.

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When you receive your carbon tax rebate by direct deposit have you ever not known where it came from, regardless of how it was identified on your statement?

The Candian government wants the country’s banks to identify, in customers’ bank statements when they receive the carbon rebate, that it is labelled as such.

Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says the lack of a clear identifier is contributing to confusion about carbon price rebates, so he is going to change the law if he has to in order to force the big banks to identify the carbon rebate by name when doing direct deposits.

The first rebate deposits in 2022 were labelled very generically, which meant recipients had no idea why they were getting the money.

T-D and B-MO have adopted the government’s requested “CdaCarbonRebate” entry, R-B-C and Scotiabank say they couldn’t make the change in time for the rollout, and C-I-B-C is still calling it “Deposit Canada.”

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