A ... serious and commensurate response, let's call it that, almost has to include an enforcement mechanism that reliably and robustly supports treaty rights (which are federal) over resource extraction (which is provincial).
That's worth doing even in a selfish sense -- going to be required for dealing with climate change -- but it also absolutely and inescapably opens the whole constitutional can of worms.
It also, in those terms, doesn't have anything like enough support; way too much of the economy sits directly on resource extraction.
So there's very much a conspiracy of silence about the whole subject, because it might start to create political support for that serious and commensurate response.
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Date: 2015-06-05 02:34 pm (UTC)That's worth doing even in a selfish sense -- going to be required for dealing with climate change -- but it also absolutely and inescapably opens the whole constitutional can of worms.
It also, in those terms, doesn't have anything like enough support; way too much of the economy sits directly on resource extraction.
So there's very much a conspiracy of silence about the whole subject, because it might start to create political support for that serious and commensurate response.