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Manitoba Monitoring Saskatchewan Carbon Taxation Court Challenge
Brian Pallister - Premier Manitoba

Farmscape for May 24, 2018

Manitoba's Premier says his province is closely monitoring the progress of Saskatchewan's Constitutional Reference Case filed in the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal challenging the federal government's authority to force the provinces to implement carbon pricing.
Carbon taxation was among the several issues discussed in Yellowknife as the Western Premiers gathered to discuss shared priorities for keeping western Canada economically competitive and increasing opportunities for long term growth for people and communities in all regions of Western and Northern Canada.
Following the meeting yesterday Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister told reporters his Saskatchewan counterpart Scott Moe, did an excellent job presenting Saskatchewan's position on carbon taxation.

Clip-Brian Pallister-Premier Manitoba:
With the federal government's backstop and threat to invoke the carbon tax in each of our provinces unless we come up with our own plan, some provinces have done so, most have now.
Saskatchewan has chosen not to and is fighting in the courts.
That is their right to do.
In Manitoba we pursued constitutional legal advice.
That advice was that, on the jurisdictional issue, the federal government does have the authority to invoke.
But we'll be watching carefully to see if they also have the right to tell us what kind of plan specifically we want to have.
We have in Manitoba decided we want flat, we don't want a carbon levy going up year after year after year.
We want it flat like our prairie horizon and I think Scott Moe might know what a flat prairie horizon looks like in Saskatchewan but he'll know better after his court case is dealt with provincially where he stands in terms of overall strategies.
Both of us are people who understand the importance of conservation strategies that work.
We're both people who understand the need for us to strategize around reduced emissions.
That isn't at issue here.
What's at issue is how the provincial governments of our country develop their own plans and Premier Moe is asking the question fundamentally to what degree does the federal government have the right to tell us what to do in Saskatchewan?

For Farmscape.Ca, I'm Bruce Cochrane.


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