This new Superior Court would have four divisions:
civil, criminal, family, and probate, which would have the same subject matter
jurisdiction currently had by the
current Superior, District, Family, and Probate courts.
The
current debate around the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline centres around political posturing, provincial
jurisdiction, investment priorities, climate change, coastal protection and consent by First Nations communities, but when the pipeline was originally being built in 1952,
civil defence and the threat of war with the Soviet Union was a going concern.