Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall is taking federal NDP Leader Tom Mulcair to task for what Wall says are wealth transfer policies dressed up as environmental policies.
Wall says Mulcair’s talk of internalizing environmental costs for the resource sector sounds like code for cap-and-trade or a carbon tax.
Wall says such policies would kill jobs, drive up energy rates and threaten growth in Saskatchewan.
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Mulcair has said his problem is with the federal government, not the provinces.
But Wall told party supporters at an event in Regina last night that Mulcair has a problem with the province if that is his position.
The two starting trading barbs last month after Mulcair said the booming oil sector was hurting manufacturing in eastern Canada by driving up the dollar.
Mulcair has said his vision of environmentally sustainable development is one in which polluters pay the costs of cleaning up their messes.
He has said his polluter-pay principle does not single out the West but would apply to the development of all natural resources right across the country.
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