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Brad Wall suddenly finds himself serving as Canada’s skeptic-in-chief, the one premier willing to question the push to slap new taxes on anything that can be linked to carbon. While the other premiers were congratulating themselves after a meeting Monday with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Wall played Eeyore, announcing he wouldn’t be leaping onto the bandwagon with the rest of them.

“We won’t be implementing a universal carbon tax in the province of Saskatchewan,” Wall said. “We’re making some key investments in renewables. Those will be announced early this week.”

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His statement was echoed Monday by Saskatchewan’s finance minister, Kevin Doherty. “We’re not imposing a carbon tax,” he said in Regina. “Now is not the time to impose another tax on the business community.”

While acknowledging the province has some budget challenges to face, he added, “we will do this by careful management and restraint measures. We will not balance the budget by reaching into your pockets and raising taxes.”