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Premier Brad Wall is apologizing after sharing a tweet that used an expletive when referring to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

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The tweet, from the Twitter account of Branik Fedikov, was critical of Trudeau’s planned carbon tax and questioned the need for the tax if all money collected from it will be returned to the province from which it is collected, as Trudeau claims will be the case. The tweet ended with #shithead.

Wall retweeted Fedikov’s post but soon deleted the retweet and apologized. He said when he originally retweeted the post, he did not see the offensive hashtag.

“Earlier I retweeted a post re carb tax w/ a profane hashtag ref the PM that I simply didn’t initially see. Minutes later it was deleted,” Wall wrote on Twitter.

“I should have been more careful and apologize. No doubt the debate on the carbon tax will be lively but it need not involve insults.”

The tweet from Fedikov came after Wall, in a Facebook post on Tuesday, issuing a retort to comments made by Trudeau during a recent year-end interview with CTV News. When Trudeau was asked during the sit-down if he was concerned that the federal government’s planned carbon tax “is going to be crippling provinces like Saskatchewan,” Trudeau said he wasn’t “because all the revenue from the carbon pricing will stay within that province. And if Brad Wall is worried about the cost on his farmers, or the cost on a particular industry, he can return to them all the money from the carbon tax.”