Supreme Court dares Canada’s polarized politics to do better

Supreme Court Chief Justice Richard Wagner and his fellow jurists have done their job. Now it is up to the politicians. The hurry up offence doesn’t work in a courtroom.

Supreme Court Chief Justice Richard Wagner wrote, in the majority opinion of court, 'Parliament and the provincial legislatures to exercise their respective powers over the environment harmoniously, in the spirit of co-operative federalism.'The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY MIKE BLANCHFIELD AND ARASH GOLSHAN

November 1, 2023

When it weighed in on the unconstitutionality of the federal Impact Assessment Act (IAA), the Supreme Court of Canada suggested a constructive path forward—one that dared Canada’s polarized politics to do better.

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