Alberta's Court of Appeal Says Ottawa's Rewritten Impact Assessment Act Is Still Unconstitutional

In a decision issued Friday, Alberta's Court of Appeal held that the federal Impact Assessment Act still infringes on provincial jurisdiction — even though Ottawa amended the law after the Supreme Court struck down much of it in 2023. The amendment was supposed to be the repair job. The provincial court's answer is that the constitutional problem outlasted it, which turns a drafting exercise into an argument about where the federal boundary sits.