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Saskatchewan’s perennially popular Brad Wall retains the highest approval rate among premiers, at 58 per cent, followed by Manitoba’s Brian Pallister at 50 per cent and British Columbia’s Christy Clark at 35 per cent.

The online survey of a randomized and representative Canadians who are members of the Angus Reid panel was conducted from Dec. 5 to 12.

Online polls do not have a margin of error because the sample is not random but a probability sample of this size would have a margin of error of plus or minus of two percentage points, 19 times out of 20.

Wall and Pallister recently made news by refusing to sign on to a national climate framework, including national carbon pricing, at last week’s first ministers meeting.

While Pallister is using the issue as a bargaining chip around health care transfers, Wall has been vociferously opposed to a carbon tax — winning him lavish praise from Alberta conservatives.

“The two-thirds of Albertans who do not want a carbon tax were relieved to see a premier in Ottawa last week tell Ottawa their province will never sign on to a carbon tax,” Wildrose Leader Brian Jean said in question period at the Alberta legislature Monday.

“Unfortunately, that premier was from Saskatchewan and not Alberta.”

But Notley, whose government is bringing in its own carbon tax on Jan. 1, said Alberta’s approach is paying off with pipeline approvals.

“The Saskatchewan premier fought for the right to have a made-in-Ottawa plan imposed in Saskatchewan,” she said.

“He fought for the right to make political points, and that is all. What we fought for was to have a made-in-Alberta plan.”

jwood@postmedia.com