It was interesting timing last week as Alberta scored a major victory against federal overreach just as it announced plans to engage in some major provincial overreach.

All of this comes on the eve of a referendum in which — among other things — Albertans will be asked to give the Alberta government a mandate to wrest more control from Ottawa in a variety of areas of federal or shared jurisdiction.

It all serves to highlight a glaring and self-serving double standard for this government when it comes to decentralization and respecting jurisdiction. Power should flow up from municipalities and down from Ottawa, landing — conveniently — in the province’s lap.

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On Friday, we learned the Alberta Court of Appeal once again concluded that the federal Impact Assessment Act unconstitutionally intrudes on provincial jurisdiction. Alberta won such a victory in 2023, and this latest case was a test as to whether Ottawa’s changes to the law fixed the........

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