Addressing a crowd of about 100 people at Moose Jaw Heritage Inn on Thursday morning Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe took aim at the federal government's proposed Carbon Tax and the harmful effects he says it would have on the province.
In identifying agriculture, energy, mining and manufacturing as the cornerstones of the Saskatchewan economy, the premier stated that a carbon tax would disproportionatelyhurt those industries, to the point of killing jobs and driving investment to other locations.
The premier then went on to point toward the made in Saskatchewan climate change policy called "Prairie Resilience". He says that plan does much more to positively impact climate change, by rewarding innovation and new technologies like carbon capture, rather than imposing a tax that essentially takes with one hand and gives back with the other.
The premier was also clear that anywhere in the world a carbon tax has been put into effect, it had no impact on the overall carbon footprint.
In speaking to the provincial government's legal challenge to the carbon tax, the premier stated the key point is that the federal government has no constitutional grounds to impose a tax only because they are not in favour of measures the province has put into place. In this case those measure are contained in the "Prairie Resilience" plan.
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