A Question of Parliamentary power: Criminal Law and the Control of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Peter Hogg
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Peter Hogg: York University

C.D. Howe Institute Backgrounder, 2008, issue 114

Abstract: The federal government proposes to impose limits on greenhouse gas emissions by large industrial emitters. But under what authority could Parliament implement the regulations?

Keywords: economic growth and innovation; greenhouse gas emissions; Parliament of Canada; cap-and-trade system (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H5 O31 O32 O38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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