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Premier Brad Wall is a strong opponent of carbon pricing and now he may have to accept such a system is coming to Saskatchewan.

Wall spoke to reporters on Friday for the first time since the federal government announced a carbon pricing scheme, arguing it would hurt Saskatchewan people.

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That plan will establish a “floor price” of $10 a tonne on carbon pollution in 2018 and by 2022 the number will rise to $50.

Such a plan has long been on the horizon and Wall’s anger over it was no surprise. The province’s Ministry of Justice is, according to Wall, reviewing its options for a constitutional challenge of the tax.

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The premier has argued more than once it is not the right time to put a price on carbon; lines which have been repeated by the premier even as the Liberals signalled carbon pricing was inevitable.

In 2008, during his first term as premier, Wall responded to then-Liberal leader Stephane Dion’s push for a carbon tax by saying it would “kneecap” the economy.