Alberta should be the last place to impose a carbon tax, yet here we are.

Premier Danielle Smith said she and Prime Minister Mark Carney are “close” to an agreement on the cost of the industrial carbon tax they’ll impose on Albertans.

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It is inexplicable that Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe is the lone leader refusing to hit his province with a costly, job-killing carbon tax.

Here’s what’s happening:

Smith and Carney signed a memorandum of understanding, known as an MOU.

In that tentative agreement, the feds said they’d consider approving infrastructure such as pipelines and lift the federal production cap on Alberta’s oil and gas.

In exchange, Alberta agreed to obey Ottawa and impose a higher industrial carbon tax.

The catch: the industrial carbon tax will immediately cost Albertans more money and there’s no concrete plan to build a pipeline out of Alberta.

This is a raw deal so far and the MOU was due to be finalized this........

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