47 Replies to “The Power Of No”

  2. Well done Premier Moe, I expect AB’s Premier Smith will be wading in on this topic again…

    I do especially like what he’s said in the last minute of this tweet, regarding his plan for Sask Energy’s rebuttal on 1 January 2024
    …

      1. There is one other example l can think of…a couple of decades back some Saskatchewan farmers did a property tax revolt against the NDP provincial government. The rural municiplalities of said farmers collected the property tax but withheld the money from the provincial government. So, technically the farmers paid their taxes and incurred no legal liability. The tax revolt worked.

        Would that work for provinces without a natural gas crown corp? Could they have private companies submit that federal carbon tax to the province, who then withhold it from Trudeau? No idea.

    2. Equity of Government programs is a thing. It has been litigated before. Alberta could sue in the Federal Court for tax equity; Couldn’t they?

    3. I expect AB’s Premier Smith will be wading in on this topic again…

      Much like she has w/ the entire Globull Warming/Net Zero scam? All bluster and no results? Instead of agreeing to 2035, she’s pushed it back to 2050, but still hasn’t told the bastards to FOAD? Do not be enamored w/ this quisling. She is not our friend. Her feet need to be held to the fire as much as any politician.

    1. If there’s going to be a competition between the two prairie provinces, know that the real winner will be the people of AB/Sask. … and the loser will someday have to call a federal election.

  4. Great move. Kudos to Moe for doing this. Saskatchewan families need a break too.

    …eagerly waiting for the Trudeau Liberal-NDP government’s response.

    Note: repost from thread below, I’m too lazy to come up with a new post

  6. Manitoba should do the same now too. I reduced my hydroelectric consumption by 6% but my monthly budget bill has gone up 6% due to add ons from the carbon tax even though I heat with hydroelectricity. I can’t get gas where I live. It’s electric or wood. I need a break too!

    1. Canoe is NDP. The only thing he’s going to do is crank up taxes. In their post election win press release, the second para mentions “from each according to their ability to each according to their need”. Where have I heard this before?

    2. Just curious is there a carbon tax on cord wood? How about wood pellets? If there is how’s it collected. There’s an awful lot of cash purchases for wood. In fact how much wood is actually burned for heating in Canada. If you have First Nations or Métis blood wouldn’t burning wood for warmth be part of one’s sacred traditions? There are so many questions one could ask a federal government bureaucrat that would make their heads spin and cross their eyes to paraphrase Reb Tevye.

    1. “Tax resistance is the refusal to pay tax because of opposition to the government that is imposing the tax, or to government policy, or as opposition to taxation in itself. Tax resistance is a form of direct action and, if in violation of the tax regulations, also a form of civil disobedience. ”

      Coyne’s brain exploding is a side benefit of this carbon tax fairness civil disobedience

      1. This should be a good for a few thumb sucking columns and group therapy sessions along with his panelists on the CBC.

      2. Was there not an event in history, where the phrase :

        “No taxation without representation”, was floating around.

        Furthermore, what might be the result , not of driving empty trucks to Ottawa, but of NOT driving trucks laden with foodstuffs, east of, say, Manitoba?

        1. We’ve got all the repreentation we can afford, Bruce. We got far too much governmetn and representation. A little less would save us billions.

          1. From where I sit, that “representation”, like in most of the world, has the stench of “fraud” about it.

            “Value for money”? Pretty much an unknown and / or “unwanted” part of the deal.

            It looks a LOT more like a classic gangster “protection racket” to me.

            Social contract? More like a “unilateral gentleman’s agreement” or “an offer you cannot refuse”.

      3. “Coyne’s brain exploding is a side benefit of this carbon tax fairness civil disobedience.”

        We can only hope this is the aneurism puts an end to him.

          2. LC, this would acually mean something even more if Saskatchewan and Alberta actually ditched their RCMP contracts and created their own provincial police forces. If you want to break the control of Ottawa over the western provinces, you have to take control of the folks legally empowered to carry guns. Or did the two provinces actually like having the dimwitted, incompetent Trudeau sycophant Brenda Lucki controlling their police? (You don’t need to answer this obviously. But some of our friends in western Canada are a bit slow on the uptake on this issue.)

          4. “I agree, cgh. Saskatchewan is in the process of building up its it’s own police force but it is a long timeline.”

            Thanks, LC. This was news to me. It may be a long timeline, but as long as it happens it will be good for the province. No one, I think, would have imagined Jacques Parizeau to have been a fool. One of his preliminary steps before the 1995 Quebec referendum was to start to build a purely Quebec military. He knew that any nation is only as strong as its girls and guys with guns.

            Same thing goes for provinces. Ditching the RCMP is the first, necessary step towards being able to take a stronger line with Ottawa.

        2. I’m old enough to remember Trudeau changing the 10 dollar bill to put the picture of a black woman that was an inspirational pioneer by engaging in civil desobedience.

    2. Let’s take up a collection for some adult Depends for Andrew so he doesn’t soil himself in public.

    3. “Andy Coyne is melting down a bit.”

      Good. Any time that happens, you know someone has done something right.

      1. Like Sharon Carstairs, he’ll reform it from the inside. Another Winnipeg born grifter.

  11. This needs to expand, and a mirror of every sweetheart deal Justy has made with Queeebec, gets mirrored by the rest of Canada. It’ll be epic.

  12. We’ve been waiting for this, yes. But it is also nothing more than common sense. Give credit where credit is due though.

  14. from the West.
    Separation.
    But in the meantime we will take the same deal Quebec has..
    On everything.
    If Ottawa permits Quebec any powers or “carve out” we take those too.
    Starting with reversing the tax structure..
    Taxes need to be local first,let the local pay a portion to the Province and The Province pay The Central Parasites what portion they find them worth.
    And no citizen pays higher than 10%.
    Starve the Parasitic Overload..
    Oh course ,in the meantime lose money in your business..
    Which as costs spiral upward,is staggeringly easy to do.

  17. So, Trudeau will just deduct the 10 million from other provincial transfers.
    CTV new claims the remittance is still required even if not collected.

  18. I like Scott and what he did with this move but he did not go far enough. He should have said every Saskatchewan crown corporation will no longer collect and remit any form of carbon tax. This would have put the ball in his majesty Justin the first’s court. Let’s see who blinks.

    Now that I think about it all federal payments currently remitted to Ottawa must be remitted to the Saskatchewan government’s own Revenue Agency as of January 1, 2024. https://leaderpost.com/news/politics/government-passes-bill-to-establish-saskatchewan-revenue-agency

    Now that would draw a line in the sand.

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