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In finding that such assessments would contravene s. 125 of the Constitution Act, 1867 but for the effect of Intergovernmental Agreements between B.C. and the federal government, Karakatsanis J first noted that such a contravention would require that “the subject matter of the tax must be property belonging to the federal Crown in the case of a tax imposed by the provincial legislature and to the provincial Crown in the case of a tax imposed by Parliament” (para. 68), before stating (at para. 76): BCI, as trustee, legally owns the assets held in the Portfolios. ...