Canada’s natural resources minister, Jonathan Wilkinson, says Saskatchewan residents won’t get a carbon rebate, after Premier Moe announced last month that his government would stop remitting the levy on natural gas to Ottawa.

Scott Moe said at the time that it wasn’t fair that the federal government temporarily exempted home heating oil from the tax, which mostly benefits Atlantic Canadians. He believes the same should have been done for natural gas.

Wilkinson says the deadline to submit the levy was Thursday. If residents were to have gotten the rebate, a family of four in Saskatchewan would have received $1,504 for the 2024-25 year. The Government of Canada says this rebate ensures most households get more money back than they pay in tax, with lower income households benefiting the most, and all direct proceeds are returned to the province.

Premier Moe’s response in a social media post is no rebate = no tax. He explains that Saskatchewan people are still paying the tax on gas, diesel, propane. He suggests if residents stop getting the rebate entirely, then the province should stop paying the tax entirely.

A statement from provincial NDP Leader Carla Beck says if Premier Scott Moe wanted to save families hundreds of dollars, he could have removed the Sask Party tax on gas and fuel, but he didn’t. She stresses that the Saskatchewan NDP doesn’t support the carbon tax but she believes Moe could have gotten a deal like Atlantic Canada did if he had put in the work to do so.