Saskatchewan government to eliminate industrial carbon tax on April 1

Chris Edwards · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 27, 2025 1:05 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago

Premier Scott Moe is pausing Saskatchewan's concern c tax.

The determination targets the c taxation complaint nether the Output-Based Performance Standards (OBPS) program, which taxes ample concern emitters. The intermission volition spell into effect connected April 1.

"We person ever stood from time 1 against this tax," said Premier Scott Moe connected Thursday. "We don't deliberation it is successful immoderate mode an biology tax, but yet is preventing concern and enhancing the inflationary costs that we are experiencing arsenic Canadians."

The state said the pause volition prevention families and businesses successful the state hundreds of dollars a year. 

On March 14, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the abstracted user c taxation volition besides beryllium eliminated connected April 1. The 2 argumentation changes volition marque Saskatchewan the archetypal state successful Canada to afloat region immoderate c tax, the province's connection said.

The taxation intermission volition complicate the Saskatchewan government's fund projections. In its latest provincial budget, the authorities projected a $12-million surplus, but that included an estimated $431 cardinal successful gross generated by the OBPS program.

"We're gonna person those details successful the days ahead," Moe said Thursday erstwhile asked astatine a quality league whether the determination volition enactment the state successful a deficit.

On wherefore consultations connected the fund interaction didn't hap earlier the announcement, Moe said his authorities is "taking our cue from the national leaders arsenic they commencement to backmost up connected this policy."

In a statement, Saskatchewan Opposition NDP person Carla Beck approved of the removal, but criticized the fund impacts. 

"We request to marque definite our state isn't near down astatine a clip erstwhile we're facing tariffs and chaos successful the planetary economy," she said.