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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 16h

Also not sure what to make of the fact that it's (so far?) only five provinces signed on to this call for the federal government to completely abandon its arguments before the Supreme Court.

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 16h

I think lawyers outside those provincial justice departments might agree that that's a bold or novel argument, but there are other parts to the federal factum.

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ANALYSIS | What is the Supreme Court going to say about the notwithstanding clause? | CBC News

Last month, Justice Minister Sean Fraser stood accused by a Bloc Québécois MP of wanting to rewrite the Constitution. "On the contrary, we do not want to change the Constitution," Fraser said. "We wan...

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 16h

The premiers suggest they want the federal factum withdrawn in its entirety, but their arguments seem focused on only one part of the factum — where the federal attorney general argues the notwithstanding clause shouldn't cause "irreparable" harm to a Charter right.

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 16h

Attention is understandably focused on Washington, but this shouldn't go overlooked.

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

5 premiers urge Carney to withdraw court submission on notwithstanding clause | CBC News

Five premiers say Ottawa must withdraw its recent call for limits on the notwithstanding clause because it amounts to a "complete disavowal" of the bargain that spawned the Charter of Rights and Freed...

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Trevor Tombe @trevortombe.bsky.social · 1d

Canada to move all future budgets to the Fall: www.cbc.ca/news/politi...

For context, here's the timing of every federal budget since 1867. Nearly 80% of of all budgets were released by May; 68% by April. #cdnecon #cdnpoli

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Jordon Nardino @jnardino.bsky.social · 2d

They are called writers

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

we need a word for a type of person who spends all their time working to live in a city so they can be near cool things, but they don't actually like going out

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 20h

So this seems to be going well.

www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

Smith calls Eby’s pipeline criticism ‘un-Canadian and unconstitutional’

Premiers of Alberta and B.C. disagree over which infrastructure projects should be fast-tracked by Carney

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 21h

I also feel like it might give Carney too much credit to say he killed the carbon tax.

That thing was fatally wounded long before he arrived.

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 21h

Political rhetoric is easy to discount, but Carney still talks about combatting climate change as a "moral obligation."

That's at least something that could be held against him if he withdraws other policies.

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 21h

What does he do on industrial pricing?

Does he keep the EV mandate?

What does he do on home retrofits? (There's a new program for low-income households, but the federal loan program just expired.)

Does he move on climate finance disclosure?

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 21h

But obviously his early retreats raise questions about where he's going to end up standing.

I think the real first measure of that will be the "climate competitiveness strategy" we're supposed to see this fall.

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 21h

I think, given the state of the policies when Carney came along, it's not hard to understand why he killed the carbon tax and paused the EV mandate.

I think there are also experts who would say you don't need the O&G emissions cap...

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How Mark Carney is complicating Canada’s climate progress | The Narwhal

From cancelling the carbon tax to pausing the EV mandate, Mark Carney’s government is making sweeping changes to Canada’s environmental rules

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 1d

(That piece, by Bloomberg's @franciswilkinson.bsky.social, is very good. One of the best I've read on our current predicament.)

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 1d

Well, there's a jarring sequence of words to read.

www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat...

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Chris Turner @theturner.bsky.social · 1d

"Solar ... is now so cheap that large markets for solar can emerge in a country in the space of a single year."

Another historic milestone for the energy transition, which is doing things seemingly daily that I was told quite often until quite recently were impossible www.bbc.com/news/article...

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity - BBC News

Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not sure I could make a good case at this point as to why normal people should care, except that I have this small hope that distinguishing between operating and capital spending might lead to a more useful discussion about what goes into a deficit.

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 1d

Kevin Page's review of the budget changes announced today is useful.

www.policymagazine.ca/the-carney-g...

The Carney Government's Changes to Federal Budgeting - Policy Magazine

By Kevin Page

www.policymagazine.ca

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 1d

I think the objectively correct list is something like:

1a. Jordan
1b. LeBron
3. Kareem
4. Russell
5. Magic
6. Bird
7. Duncan
8. Steph
9. Wilt
10. Hakeem or Shaq

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 2d

If your line graph doesn't cover at least 50 years I'm not interested in it.

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Dr Lindsay Tedds @lindsaytedds.bsky.social · 2d

Two weeks ago the PBO came out with the Economic and Fiscal update and release the graph on the left. What happens if you set the axis to 0 (as one should) and how it is historical context. That is the graph on the right (reproducing only the dark blue line because that is the numbers they gave).

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Dr Lindsay Tedds @lindsaytedds.bsky.social · 2d

Two weeks ago the PBO came out with the Economic and Fiscal update and release the graph on the left. What happens if you set the axis to 0 (as one should) and how it is historical context. That is the graph on the right (reproducing only the dark blue line because that is the numbers they gave).

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 2d

Every time I watch a House of Commons committee I am reminded of why I don't bother watching a lot of House of Commons committees.

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Quinton @qu1nton.bsky.social · 2d

Tradition for finance minister changes from new shoes to new winter boots.

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 2d

Spring budgets, RIP.

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Brian Platt @brianplatt.bsky.social · 2d

(Bloomberg) -- Prime Minister Mark Carney plans to change when Canada releases major fiscal documents, moving the country’s federal budget to the fall on an ongoing basis.

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Alex Boyd @alexboyd.bsky.social · 2d

In which @raisapatel.bsky.social and I try to explain why people are asking Pierre Poilievre about ostriches—and why he’s not really answering. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

Why everyone suddenly cares what Pierre Poilievre thinks about ostriches

Why the Conservative leader is weighing in on the fate of more than 300 birds after avian flu was discovered in the flock.

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 4d

New from me. On the Supreme Court's upcoming consideration of the notwithstanding clause — and the distinct possibility that it's going to fall to Parliament to do something about it.

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ANALYSIS | What is the Supreme Court going to say about the notwithstanding clause? | CBC News

Last month, Justice Minister Sean Fraser stood accused by a Bloc Québécois MP of wanting to rewrite the Constitution. "On the contrary, we do not want to change the Constitution," Fraser said. "We wan...

www.cbc.ca

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