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Changes in growing seasons and moisture levels, extreme weather, floods and wildfires: the economic and human costs of climate change are already hurting Saskatchewan, and will only get worse.

When dealing with an issue of this magnitude, all options need to be on the table, which means all of the players need to be at the table. But in Canada today, one topic is taking up all of the oxygen — if not necessarily any carbon dioxide — and that’s an oversimplified debate on one approach: carbon tax.

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When it comes to lowering emissions, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Premier Scott Moe have us asking the wrong question, reducing climate change to a simple yes or no. If you don’t support the federal carbon tax, you must be a climate change denier. If you’re open to market measures like a price on carbon, you’re accused of being against the economy and the West.

We know it’s not that simple. Trudeau’s plan is one option among many. And Moe’s own carbon tax on heavy emitters, introduced last fall, shows that even the loudest objectors see a role for pricing pollution. The most important issue facing humanity today has been reduced to a political football.