Trudeau Trying to Buy People’s Votes with Their Own Money

The new session of the legislature recently opened with a Throne Speech focused on our commitment to stand up for Saskatchewan people. This includes our plans to implement our made-in-Saskatchewan Climate Change strategy, improve cellular coverage in rural communities, and deliver a balanced budget for 2019-20.

While our economy and the province’s finances are showing signs of improvement, we are still facing challenges due to the threat of a damaging federal carbon tax, continued sanctions from the United States on our steel and uranium industries, and a deeply discounted price for our oil caused by a lack of pipelines.

On the eve of our Throne Speech, politicians from Ottawa made headlines with a new plan to hit Saskatchewan with a carbon tax. This scheme is a shell game where we would all be forced to pay more for basic necessities like fuel, heat and power.

Promising a new rebate for families to offset all of these increasing costs, The Trudeau Liberals are now desperately trying to convince us that we will actually be better off by paying more to gas up our vehicles, heat our homes and keep the lights on.

Saskatchewan people won’t be fooled. The new Trudeau carbon tax plan is a cynical attempt to buy your vote with your money.

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Most of us here in Saskatchewan have to drive a lot for work, and for our kids. We also have to heat our homes in the winter. The Trudeau carbon tax means that all of these things are going to cost a lot more – and those are just the direct costs.

Hockey rinks, rec centres, school divisions, and municipalities are all going to be paying a lot of carbon tax and, at the end of the day, that cost is going to get passed along to families.

Despite what the feds say, our agriculture sector will not by exempt from these higher costs. Producers will still pay on inputs such as road and rail transport, as well as natural gas and propane consumption in shops, barns and grain dryers.

Fortunately, Saskatchewan people know the Trudeau carbon tax is not good environmental or economic policy.

An analysis from the University of Regina earlier this year estimated the federal carbon tax would hurt Saskatchewan’s economy by almost $16 billion, with little effect on emissions.

Our government has Prairie Resilience: plan for the environment and reducing emissions which has been accepted by the federal government. The feds, however, are still choosing to put this punishing tax on Saskatchewan.

Prairie Resilience will apply new performance standards for Saskatchewan industry heavy-emitters and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the oil and gas sector, while SaskPower continues to increase our renewable-energy generation.

The Trudeau carbon tax would hurt our economy, and it would hurt families’ finances. Your Saskatchewan Party government will stand up for Saskatchewan people, fight the carbon tax, and this new federal Liberal vote-buying scheme.

As our constitutional court challenge continues, we are repeating our call for the federal government to respect our legal challenge and forget about trying to force this costly, ineffective tax on the people of our province.