EDMONTON — Hours after being sworn in as the 18th premier of Alberta, Jason Kenney threatened a court battle against federal legislation to ban oil tanker traffic off the British Columbia coast, calling it an attack on Alberta. And these are tough times,” Kenney told a Senate panel in Edmonton. He vowed, should the bill become law, the Alberta government would take it to court. coast, and not to the East Coast, where oil and gas can be imported and exported. He claimed, too, that Bill C-48 was the direct result of the “foreign-funded” campaign against Alberta oil, a campaign chosen because activists don’t wish to go after foreign countries.

Source: National Post May 01, 2019 00:22 UTC