NDP supports scrapping industrial carbon tax, but wonders about the money it was supposed to bring in

Mar 26, 2025

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NDP Leader and Leader of the Opposition Carla Beck, speaking about power production on May 17. Legislative Assembly of SaskatchewanREGINA – The opposition NDP is fine with removing the industrial carbon tax in Saskatchewan, but asks about the money that was expected from it.

Late in the afternon of Wednesday, March 26, Premier Scott Moe released a video on social media declaring Saskatchewan would no longer have an industrial carbon tax.

Later in the evening of the same day, NDP Leader Carla Beck posted the following on various social media:

We’re fine with removing the Sask. Party’s carbon tax. Frankly, it’s been nothing more than a slush fund for their political pet projects — but we need to make sure our province isn’t left behind at a time when we’re facing tariffs and chaos in the global economy.

The Sask. Party’s carbon tax has been mismanaged from day one, so Scott Moe gets zero credit for removing it.

Now, we have a Sask. Party with no plan to address the trade war, no plan to create jobs, and a $432-million hole in the budget they’re asking the Legislature to vote on Thursday.

The people of Saskatchewan deserve a government that is focused on a future filled with good-paying jobs, growing communities and action on climate change. The Sask. Party’s bogus budget does nothing to deliver this.

What we need is a bold, forward-looking economic strategy that delivers affordable power, creates jobs in renewables, drives innovation, and reduces emissions. The Sask. Party has had 18 years to deliver this, and we’re still waiting.

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The hole in the budget she referred to is the expected revenue from the Output-Based Pricing System (OPBS). That’s the implementation of the industrial carbon tax. Provinces can either have their own OPBS or be subject to the federal carbon tax backstop. For Saskatchewan, that number is forecast to come in at $353.3 million for 2024-25, while the 2025-26 budget had it pegged at $431.5 million. That was money would mostly come from the electricity sector – at $346.6 million for 2025-26, according to last week’s budget.

 

Table from 2025-26 Saskatchewan Budget.

 

British Columbia is jumping on the end-the-carbon-tax bandwagon, too, with its government saying it would table legislation on March 31 to end its consumer carbon tax on April 1.

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BREAKING: Moe declares “Saskatchewan is now a carbon tax free province”

B.C. to bring in legislation to end its carbon tax on consumers starting April 1