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OTTAWA — Baseball manager Tommy Lasorda once quipped that he didn’t like to talk about his troubles because 80 per cent of people didn’t care and the other 20 per cent were glad he was having them.

It’s probably not a bad estimate in most circumstances. Four out of five Canadians likely don’t care that Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia are being penalized unfairly by the new Liberal carbon tax. The vast majority of Canadians live in provinces — British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario and Quebec — that have already put in place carbon pricing plans and they will not see any new tax increases in the next four years.

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Brad Wall, the Saskatchewan premier, on the other hand, reacted as if Justin Trudeau was proposing to slaughter the province’s beaver population.

He called the unilateral imposition of the carbon levy a “betrayal,” estimating it will cost the average family in his province $1,250 a year by the time it hits its $50-per-tonne target in 2022.