Alberta Premier Danielle Smith was smiling as she announced her government’s reaction to the Supreme Court’s Oct. 13 decision striking down parts of the federal Impact Assessment Act as unconstitutional.
“Today is a great day,” she told a news conference. “We are extremely pleased. … This legislation—also known as the ‘no more pipelines act’ but I’ve been calling it ‘the don’t build anything anywhere act'—is an existential threat to Alberta’s economy.”
