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SASKATOON — One of Canada’s best-known environmental activists says that if Premier Brad Wall isn’t a climate change denier, he certainly isn’t taking the issue seriously.

David Suzuki was in Saskatoon on Sunday for a literary festival, and told a reporter from CKOM radio that he’s shocked Saskatchewan voters would elect a climate denier to play a role in leading the province.

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Suzuki says the main reason he wanted to come to the city was to talk to the Saskatchewan people who elected Wall.

He says farmers know the climate is changing, and says Canada cannot meet the Paris climate accord target for limiting global temperature increases if pipelines, tarsands expansion, or expanding coal and rail terminals remains on the agenda.

Wall is on a trade mission to South Korea and China but his office says the assertion is absurd and Suzuki should know better.

In an emailed statement, Wall responded by saying he doesn’t deny the existence of climate change, but takes issue with a new tax on carbon emissions.