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That Saskatchewan and Alberta do have legitimate grievances with Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government is something that cannot be ignored.

Maybe we don’t accept that we need to be doing our part to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but when you’re a farmer trying to get a crop off in this miserable year and you’re hit with a massive carbon tax bill on the natural gas you need to to dry your grain, you have good reason to be frustrated and maybe a little angry.To this, Saskatchewan Party Premier Scott Moe has a legitimate point.

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Had Moe or Alberta’s United Conservative Party Premier Jason Kenney confined their own frustrations over the election results to such specific Liberal government policy issues, it would likely have bolstered their case.

But when your “new deal” in Confederation hinges on an issue you also chose not to fix for political reasons, you torch your own credibility. Moe, Kenney et al. are now clearly throwing the equalization log on this Prairie fire they claim has been ignited by the Trudeau government.