by markbiglandpritchard | Apr 19, 2021 | #cdnpoli, #skpoli, Policy
On March 25th, the Supreme Court of Canada declared the federal carbon pricing scheme to be constitutional: the federal government has the legal right to impose it on provinces, such as Saskatchewan, which have not developed their own scheme. While carbon...
by markbiglandpritchard | Dec 6, 2017 | #skpoli
On Monday (Dec 4, 2017), Environment Minister Dustin Duncan announced the Saskatchewan government’s much-awaited climate strategy, entitled “Prairie Resilience”. We find it something of an anticlimax – a remix of old ideas with no truly new initiatives. There are...
by markbiglandpritchard | Oct 27, 2016 | #skpoli
Last week (on Oct. 18, 2016) Brad Wall at last announced his climate policy… sort of. It turns out that there is nothing new in the White Paper as regards actual policy – but there are some new twists in the demands that he is making of the federal...