Moe: Feds have rejected Saskatchewan’s alternative to carbon tax
Saskatchewan’s battle against the federal carbon tax may have ended in the courts, but the province continues to rail against it.
In a statement Monday, Premier Scott Moe said the federal government had rejected Saskatchewan’s submission to replace the tax and said it wouldn’t accept any other submissions until 2023.
“Saskatchewan’s submission would have protected families, jobs and industries while exceeding the federal minimum standards, in close alignment with other provincial programs previously accepted,” Moe wrote. “The rejection of Saskatchewan’s submission can only be viewed as an arbitrary and political decision from the federal government.
“While Saskatchewan will be fully evaluating the federal decision and exploring all avenues possible to protect our residents from the federally imposed carbon tax, we hope that the federal government does not take the same arbitrary and political approach to ongoing areas of federal-provincial negotiation, such as the federal child care funding, which Saskatchewan will continue to pursue.”