A reader takes issue with two columns by Murray Mandryk that criticize the Saskatchewan First Act and the single-use plastics ban challenge. skpoli
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On the federal plastics ban, too, he misses the point. The landfills will not be used measurably less without plastics. In fact, as Justice Minister Bronwyn Eyre has pointed out, they will be filled with even less desirable, substitute materials, which have a greater carbon footprint.On the Saskatchewan First Act, most Saskatchewan people have had it with economically harmful federal policies that are holding us back.
The act does everything under provincial power to fight back. It amends our provincial constitution, establishes an economic tribunal to assess the economic harm of federal policies, and asserts our constitutional authority. Quebec does this regularly.
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