The Alberta Court of Appeal has released a tentative schedule
for Alberta's challenge of the federal carbon tax, which could
see the case heard just before Christmas. In Reference re
Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act, 2019 ABCA 324, Mr.
Justice Slatter set the following schedule for the case:
- September 18:
Applications heard by those parties seeking to intervene and
challenge any portion of Alberta's evidence.
- October 11: Deadline
for Canada to file its evidence.
- October 25: Deadline
for Canada to file its factum.
- November 4: Deadline
for all other provinces and intervenors to file their evidence and
factums.
- November 18:
Deadline for reply factums, if found to be necessary.
