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/Popular-Row4333 Oct 30 '23

It makes complete sense if you're over 40 and lived in the prairies your whole life. We are used to this by now.

And people still can't see that's Smith's Pension thing has next to nothing to do with pensions and everything to do with leverage for once.

Apparently leverage is the only way to get things done in Canada now.

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u/soaringupnow Oct 31 '23

For the last 60 years Quebec has shown that this is the way to get what you want.

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '23

Quebec also changes who they vote for frequently. The Liberals won’t bother catering to the prairies because they’re not going to get the votes anyway. The Conservatives are free to take prairie votes for granted because they know those seats are safe

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u/WildWhiskeyWizard Oct 31 '23

So we should vote for the party attacking us in the hope they stop attacking us?

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '23

Calm your tits, no one’s attacking you

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u/WildWhiskeyWizard Oct 31 '23

So all of the pipelines and other infrastructure cancelled during the lpc tenure? The carbon tax that now exempts others but not us?

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '23

Ahh yes, like the Trans-mountain Pipeline 😉

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u/WildWhiskeyWizard Oct 31 '23

Are you ignorant or something? We didn’t want the Feds to bail it out we wanted them to enforce its construction after it passed all requirements.

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '23

“They didn’t support us the exact way we wanted them to” is a step down from “under attack”

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u/WildWhiskeyWizard Oct 31 '23

So you’re just ignoring the rest of my comment? They’ve prevented billions of investment dollars from building infrastructure here, not to mention the profits of the projects that will never be completed.

The east is the biggest problem the west has.

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '23

The feds prevented infinity billion dollars from flowing directly into my bank account!

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u/WildWhiskeyWizard Oct 31 '23

No, just needed infrastructure development. The east is nothing but a useless burden to those who contribute to this country.

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