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Last Monday, Premier Moe met with Prime Minister Trudeau and missed a golden opportunity.

Partly through lack of experience, and probably because of a loyalty to Jason Kenney, the premier failed to take advantage of a situation that may not come his way again soon.

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Premier Moe went to Ottawa with a series of demands that were only slightly different from what he has been saying over the past year.

These included a one year “hoist” on the carbon tax in Saskatchewan, an agreement to make changes to the equalization formula, and an insistence that the federal government make substantial changes to two key pieces of federal environmental legislation. He argued that these were needed because of economic circumstances in Saskatchewan, particularly having to do with a poor harvest this year, and because of rising alienation in the province.

A closer look at his proposals, however, shows that they would do little to alleviate immediate economic problems.