Opinion: Election-advertising law is unconstitutional

Last summer, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation put up a billboard that read: “You can’t buy ‘social licence’ when it’s not for sale.” Premier Rachel Notley and other politicians have claimed the carbon tax would create the social licence necessary to get pipelines built. Yet, Albertans now pay more to heat their homes and eco-activists are still hanging from bridges to stop oil tankers and blockading pipelines.
But the billboard is about much more than challen