No good news for the province whose primary economic drivers — agriculture, oil and mining — will be hit with another carbon tax increase. skpoli opinion
Sure, there is similar anguish from our similarly landlocked sister in Confederation to the west. No doubt, Alberta feels the same way we do. But Alberta always seemed big enough to withstand the isolation.job creation, Saskatchewan is clearly sputtering.
What we saw in Tuesday’s federal budget is $43 billion in net new spending scheduled for the next six years with the focus on improved health care for lower income Canadians , $13 billion for the implementation of a national dental care plan for families earning less than $90,000 annually and $20 billion in tax credits for green technologies.Article content
But it’s Saturday’s annual federal carbon tax increase to 14 cents a litre — which will increase the cost for the average household between $402 and $847 this year, evenrebates, according to the Parliamentary budget bureau — where Saskatchewan people most see their realities removed from the federal Liberal government’s priorities.
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