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The more Canadians learn about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s plan to force a carbon tax on every corner of the country, the less they like it.

It’s a phenomenon that echoes what happened in Australia in 2014, when its government repealed a much-despised carbon tax after it had been in place for just two years.

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Several Canadian provinces already have carbon taxes that meet Trudeau’s approval while a number of others don’t. Come Jan. 1, the feds will force their version of the tax on the provinces that won’t bend to their will.

This isn’t the end of Canada’s carbon tax fight though. Now the stakes are even greater.

Next year, the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal will hear a reference question case that attempts to get to the bottom of whether the feds even have the right to force such a tax on the provinces.