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This is the best summary I could come up with:
In a ruling released Thursday, Justice Angela Furlanetto wrote that the category of plastic manufactured items was too broad to be given a blanket toxicity label under federal law.
Those regulations will prohibit the sale of plastic checkout bags, cutlery, food service ware, stir sticks and straws in Canada after December 20.
"We know that plastic pollution is one of the major environmental crises of our time and this [ruling] really hampers the federal government's ability to come to grips with this crisis," Beck told CBC News.
The judge also wrote that Ottawa's decision "poses a threat to the balance of federalism" because it didn't restrict its regulations to those plastics that have "potential to cause harm to the environment."
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and her Environment Minister Rebecca Schulz said Ottawa's initial decision to add plastics to the toxic substance list was an example of "federal overreach."
But Beck said that by quashing the order-in-council, the judge effectively struck down the government's reasoning for adding plastics to the toxic substance list under S-5.
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