News Analysis
There have been a number of cases of groups with significant federal grants taking provincial governments to court over environmental or cultural issues.
Recent cases include the governments of Alberta and Saskatchewan facing court challenges to their school pronoun policies, as well as groups intervening in provincial challenges by Ontario and others to the federal carbon tax.
While in some cases the groups use the federal funds directly to challenge provincial legislation, and in others it’s not clear if federal funds are used for the legal challenge, David Leis, president of the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, says it still amounts to federal government funds indirectly interfering with provincial legislation if it’s taxpayer money that’s accounting for significant funds of these groups and keeping them afloat….