Brian Zinchuk is editor and owner of Pipeline Online
Lt.-Governor Russ Mirasty, delivering the Speech from the Throne on Oct. 25. Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan
REGINA – A year ago, the Saskatchewan Party government introduced the Saskatchewan First Act, which was subsequently passed into law. Now, it has made clear its intentions to use that act to take the fight to Ottawa on several climate change-related initiatives, including the Cleaner Electricity Regulations, Clean Fuel Standard, and proposed oil and gas emissions cap.
This is the portion of the Oct. 25 Speech from the Throne, as read by Lt.-Governor Russ Mirasty, under the heading “Protecting our economy”:
While Saskatchewan continues to build a strong economy, our economic growth faces threats like global instability, inflation and high interest rates.
Incredibly, one of the biggest threats to Saskatchewan’s economy is our own federal government.
The federal carbon tax increases the cost of everything we produce, manufacture, transport to market, and buy.
The federal Clean Electricity Standards and net-zero emissions targets are unrealistic and unaffordable.
As our Premier stated: “We will not risk plunging our homes, our schools, our hospitals, our special care homes, our businesses into the cold and darkness because of the ideological whims of others.”
Instead, my government will continue to build affordable, reliable, sustainable power generation and achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.
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Our resource sector is also under attack from our own federal government, through its Clean Fuel Standard regulations and its proposed oil and gas emissions cap.
These new regulations will kill thousands of jobs and devastate our resource sector, which already follows some of the most environmentally-friendly production practices in the world.
It makes no sense, especially at a time that our national government should be promoting Canadian oil and gas as a reliable and environmentally-sustainable option to countries facing energy shortages.
Last session, my government passed The Saskatchewan First Act to defend Saskatchewan’s economic potential and provincial autonomy from federal government overreach.
During this session, my government will take the next step to defend our economy and autonomy by using The Saskatchewan First Act to refer the federal Clean Electricity Regulations, the Clean Fuel Standard regulations and the oil and gas emissions cap to the Economic Impact Assessment Tribunal.
The Tribunal will define, assess and report on the economic harm caused by these destructive federal policies.
The Supreme Court of Canada recently ruled that the federal government “overstepped its constitutional competence” and the federal Impact Assessment Act is unconstitutional.
In light of this ruling, my government is calling on the federal government to rethink the many other areas where it is overstepping its constitutional competence, like electrical generation and oil and gas production.
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