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As a result of a flawed federal-provincial strategy, Brad Wall is increasingly looking like the Don Quixote of Western Canada.

The premier is in a fix. Hampered by an ideology which prevents him from ever raising taxes in Saskatchewan, and an expensive carbon capture technology which has cost the province nearly $1.5 billion, Wall is increasingly forced to become more and more strident in his opposition to the federal government’s plan to impose a carbon tax nationwide.

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To be fair, he has some political ground to stand on. The carbon capture technology in which he heavily invested is reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The problem is that it continues to use an old fuel at a very high cost. He also has a point when he talks about the directive to SaskPower to move to 50 per cent renewables.

None of this really matters, however. He has allowed himself to become isolated on the whole matter of climate change, so isolated that he could wind up being the only premier in opposition. For a small province like Saskatchewan, this is a disaster. We do not have sufficient power to alter federal policies, and while it may feel good to rail against Trudeau and stand firm on your position, ultimately such intransigence will hurt the people of this province.