When Saskatchewan launched its constitutional challenge of Ottawa’s carbon tax, the usual suspects in academe and the media contemptuously dismissed it as lacking any legal merit. While a 3-2 majority on Saskatchewan’s Court of Appeal last week ruled the carbon tax lies within federal powers, dissenting Justices Ralph Ottenbreit and Neal Caldwell argued powerfully that it violates the Constitution in several clear ways. For a total no-hoper, Saskatchewan’s case is showing surprising legs. With challenges in other provinces underway and an appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada pending, Ottawa might just be sweating bullets.

France is in the Crosshairs, but the Target is Western Civilization
Theodore Dalrymple in Law & Liberty crystallizes the recent riots in France to a simple equation: “Whole generations have been taught and come to accept that Western civilization consists of slavery, exploitation, and massacre.” Tearing it all down – not merely reforming it – is therefore not just understandable but desirable. Dalrymple disposes of the delusional trope that these are “student” protests, noting the preponderance of Muslim migrants committing the mayhem.
For a luminous glimpse into the singular civilizational achievements the rioters would tear down, read this C2C article by Patrick Keeney.


