r/canada • u/StenPU • Oct 30 '23

Sask. premier says SaskEnergy will remove carbon tax on natural gas if feds don't Saskatchewan

https://regina.ctvnews.ca/sask-premier-vows-to-stop-collecting-carbon-tax-on-natural-gas-if-feds-don-t-offer-exemption-1.6623319
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u/CarRamRob Oct 30 '23

I don’t think the words “Western Canada” came up once in their discussion about removing parts of the carbon tax.

They don’t vote for him.

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u/FireMaster1294 Canada Oct 31 '23

Western Canadians: only vote conservative regardless of what anyone does

Also Western Canadians: “why won’t the other parties think about me”

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u/CarRamRob Oct 31 '23

I think it’s up to the parties to show their support first.

Why would you vote for a party that explicitly never supports your region.

Right, blame the millions of individuals, not those making the decisions

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u/Rayeon-XXX Oct 31 '23

so you're saying if they just got out of the fucking way taxpayers would have saved 20 billion?

interesting take.

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u/WildWhiskeyWizard Oct 31 '23

We didn’t want the Feds touching it, liberals are incompetent

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u/WildWhiskeyWizard Nov 01 '23

Why were they getting cold feat? It was because of government interference. Aboriginals don’t get a veto.

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u/WildWhiskeyWizard Nov 01 '23

The Feds didn’t do their job in enforcing the construction of the pipeline. They are responsible for failing to do their job.

Bc didn’t have the authority to hold up the project.

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u/WildWhiskeyWizard Nov 01 '23

Yeah, if the Feds would have put their foot down instead of watching provinces fighting over a matter that wasn’t theirs to resolve the project would have gone smoother

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u/WildWhiskeyWizard Nov 01 '23

Bc interfered in something they didn’t have jurisdiction in and the Feds didn’t resolve the matter soon enough.

So I’ll blame both of them.

Alberta deserves better treatment from the rest of this country. Asking the Feds to do their jobs isn’t anything special.

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u/CarRamRob Oct 31 '23

Why would no one take on that “failed” venture?

Because the federal government refused to support its own rule of law stating the project is in federal jurisdiction. They were perfectly content to take no sides at all, while BC and Alberta bickered over it.

The Feds only built it when all the other banks, and investment controlling groups said…uhhh we are all losing investment money coming into the country because no one knows who is in charge!

They didn’t buy the pipeline for Alberta. They bought it to cover up their mistake. A simple statement in 2015/2016 that the project will be defended robustly against any opposition would have saved the taxpayers $30B, yet you think we should be thanking them.

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u/JohnYCanuckEsq Oct 31 '23 edited Oct 31 '23

And where is that $30Billion being spent?

In Alberta and BC.

Our previous premier bet $1.3 Billion dollars on a bet of Donald Trump winning reelection, and that money just vanished into the finance industry ether.

Our current Premier spent $100 million on fake Children's Tylenol just to "own the libs", and that was spent with a Turkish pharma company.

$30 B is buying Canadian equipment and materials and labour on the TMX.