It took barely half an hour for the Supreme Court to reach a decision in the case of John Horgan versus the interests of Canada.
Its unanimous conclusion was the one that’s been obvious since the British Columbia premier began his costly and doomed waste of court time: the shipment of oil across provincial lines comes under federal jurisdiction, therefore the construction of the Trans Mountain pipeline is a matter for Ottawa to decide.
In stating the obvious, the court also exposed the ugly reality of the B.C. government’s campaign against the Trans Mountain project: this was never really about the constitutionality of a pipeline, but about the need of Horgan’s New Democrats to win votes, and its willingness to work against the interests of the majority of the country to get them.
This is a victory that does not mean much because Kenney will not capitalise on it. He is all about posturing instead of pushing and punching.
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