Alberta invokes Sovereignty Act to nullify Canadian green energy regs | Eastern NC Now

Last year Canada's oil rich province of Alberta asserted its right to nullify Canadian federal laws by passing the Alberta Sovereignty Act.  Now, Conservative Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is invoking the law for the first time to nullify Canadian federal green energy regs that require Net Zero CO2 emissions by 2035, which she points out would make electricity in the province unaffordable and unreliable.  She further points out that the federal Constitution specifically places rules regarding power grids under provincial rather than federal authority and the federal government is overreaching by trying to assert authority in an area that even under the federal Constitution belongs to the provinces.

https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/alberta-premier-defies-trudeau-carbon-agenda-invokes-sovereignty-act

Provinces in Canada have a trump card over the federal government that US states have lacked since the end of the War Between the States.  The precedent set by Quebec means that in a showdown with Ottawa, a provincial government can put secession from Canada on the ballot.  Indeed, there is already a growing Wexit (Western exit) movement that calls for the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia leaving Canada.  Trudeau is not popular in Alberta, and his party failed to win a single seat from the province in the last federal parliamentary election.