Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is expected to speak Thursday after the Supreme Court of Canada gave the federal government the constitutional green light to impose a carbon tax on provinces.

The split decision upholds a pivotal part of the Liberal climate-change plan that accounts for at least one-third of the emissions Canada aims to cut over the next decade.

Canada implemented the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act in 2019 setting a minimum price on carbon emissions in provinces which don’t have an equivalent provincial price, a law that was challenged by Saskatchewan, Ontario and Alberta.

Since he entered provincial politics, Kenney has pledged to kill the consumer carbon tax. Bill 1 of the UCP government was the Carbon Tax Repeal Act.

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