Predictions of ‘gloom’ about carbon tax haven’t come true: Goodale

It has been years since Saskatchewan’s provincial government started its campaign against the federally imposed carbon tax, and Premier Scott Moe isn’t slowing down.

But federal Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale says the negative predictions haven’t come to pass.

Well there it is. The Trudeau carbon tax is just going to keep going higher and higher if the Liberals are re-elected. https://t.co/JPnTuRj49E

— Scott Moe (@PremierScottMoe) August 26, 2019

Moe sent out another tweet Monday morning criticizing the federal carbon tax. Speaking later in the morning, Goodale said that’s Moe choice.

“What’s significant is that the prognostications of gloom that (Moe) forecast are not, in fact, happening,” Goodale said during a media conference in Regina.

Goodale proceeded to list positives happening in Saskatchewan while under the carbon tax that was implemented this year.

He said that the commercial price of gasoline has gone down, that more people are working in Saskatchewan now than at this time last year, and that Saskatchewan’s economy is moving forward.

“So the analysis that seems to underpin the premier’s view is simply not supported by the facts — the economy is getting better,” said Goodale.

The provincial government has previously called the carbon tax a job killer, but experts recently told The Canadian Press that’s not so easy to prove.