Thread by @ThibaultBen

1. @jkenney and #UCP are supporting SK’s challenge, which argues that fed carbon price can only be constitutional if it applies to every province, incl Alberta, not just those without their own price, like SK and ON. #ableg #abpoli

https://twitter.com/BrettDolter/status/1025088689398063104

2. In other words, Kenney isn’t just proposing to waste AB’s $ on lawyers to fight a legal loser: he’s demanding that Ottawa collect carbon charges in Alberta, not just SK & ON. #abpoli

3. I’m not kidding. The fight Kenney wants to wage is to demand Ottawa extend its carbon price collection to Alberta, instead of exempting Alberta from Ottawa’s tax in favour of a made-in-Alberta design that accounts for Alberta’s unique circumstances.

4. The result? Ottawa chooses how to spend the revenues, not Alberta. Do you trust Ottawa over Albertans to reinvest the $ so as to advance the competitiveness of Alberta’s industries? Because that’s what @albertaNDP is doing.

5. Do you trust Ottawa to tailor cost containment measures to preserve the competitiveness of individual facilities, to keep them in Alberta? Because Jason Kenney does.

6. I don’t. I refuse to believe that it is in Alberta’s interest to seek a court decree that Ottawa must collect carbon prices from Albertans if it wants to fill the gaps for climate deniers in SK and ON.

7. As UCPers foment separatism in Alberta over equalization, how do they maintain any credibility when supporting SK’s demand that Ottawa impose carbon pricing in Alberta? #ableg #abpoli