{"id":86706,"date":"2017-01-25T20:47:11","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T01:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=86706"},"modified":"2017-01-25T20:58:59","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T01:58:59","slug":"saskatchewan-businesses-farmers-criticize-carbon-tax-in-letter-to-trudeau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/01\/25\/saskatchewan-businesses-farmers-criticize-carbon-tax-in-letter-to-trudeau\/","title":{"rendered":"Saskatchewan businesses, farmers criticize carbon tax in letter to Trudeau"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SASKATOON \u2013Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Saskatchewan won’t be adversely affected by his government’s proposed carbon levy.<\/p>\n

Speaking in Saskatoon, Trudeau says every penny collected from carbon levy in Saskatchewan will stay in the province.<\/p>\n

He says people in Saskatchewan will benefit from the pipelines that have just been approved.<\/p>\n

But Trudeau says the government can’t move forward on the economy unless it protects the environment.<\/p>\n

Saskatchewan businesses, farmers and rural politicians sent a letter to Trudeau saying his plans to charge $10 per tonne of carbon starting in 2018 will cost producers and businesses in competitiveness and income.<\/p>\n

Trudeau has also come under heavy criticism from Premier Brad Wall who says the carbon levy was imposed before Ottawa examined how the levy will affect various industries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SASKATOON \u2013Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Saskatchewan won’t be adversely affected by his government’s proposed carbon levy. Speaking in Saskatoon, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":86314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[14270,11237,1139],"class_list":["post-86706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-news","tag-carbon-levy","tag-prime-minister-justin-trudeau","tag-saskatchewan","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}