Families in Saskatchewan won’t be receiving as much money back from the carbon tax as last year. The federal government has announced a family of four will receive nearly 100 dollars less than they did in 2019.

As well, the feds have explored charging more than 50 dollars per tonne after 2022. The Liberal government has also approved a carbon pricing plan in New Brunswick that charges residents four cents per litre on fuel, followed by a three cent fuel tax reduction.

Provincial environment minister Dustin Duncan says, “good for New Brunswick if that’s the deal that they got”. He adds if this is something that a province can avail themselves in order to not have a federal carbon tax, it’s something that they will look at but at this point they haven’t contemplated doing it.

Duncan says there are plans in place to meet with minister Jon Wilkinson in Regina over carbon sequestration and the carbon tax some time in the near future.

The Saskatchewan government will have its carbon tax challenge heard in the Supreme Court next March.