SCOTT MOE REFUSES TO CUT PROVINCIAL GAS TAX AS FEDS SCRAP THEIRS

Moe Needs To Provide Temporary Relief While Drivers Get Hit With $1.70/L Gas Prices.
REGINA – Scott Moe has again blocked a motion from Carla Beck’s team to suspend the provincial fuel tax, even as the federal government has announced it is providing relief at the pumps all the way to Labour Day.

“For weeks, we have called on Moe to suspend the tax,” said Carla Beck, Saskatchewan NDP leader. “People cannot afford to keep taking these hits on top of his senseless power rate hikes, taxes on groceries, and taxes on kid's clothes.”

Beck said entirely suspending the gas tax on top of federal relief would save Saskatchewan drivers 25 cents per litre. Her Finance Shadow Minister Trent Wotherspoon moved a motion to cut the gas tax in the Legislature Tuesday, but it was promptly shutdown.

“This makes all the difference for people in this province — saving people a quarter of their gas bill goes a long way in trying to keep up at the grocery store and paying their power bills,” said Beck.

“Suspending the tax would show some decency and compassion for the insurmountable affordability struggle that people in this province are facing.

“Saskatchewan people rely on their vehicles to go to work, to pick up their kids, go to the doctor, and so much more.

“Scott Moe is preying on their need for a vehicle and trying to make a quick buck off them every which way he can imagine. This is wrong and, clearly, it’s time for change.”

-30-

Latest posts

POTENTIAL HEALTHCARE WORKER STRIKE ENTIRELY THE FAULT OF SCOTT MOE, JEREMY COCKRILL

Carla Beck’s Team Demands A Fair Deal For Frontline Workers After Four Years Without A Contract
REGINA – Carla Beck’s team is laying the potential of a fall strike involving thousands of healthcare workers squarely at the feet of Scott Moe and his ignorant Health Minister — who seems to cause strikes everywhere he goes — and demanding immediate action to get to the bargaining table and deliver a fair deal.

CARLA BECK DEMANDS PUBLIC CONSULTATION ON SHERWOOD DATA CENTRE AS HEAD OF RM ADMITS THE ‘GENERAL PUBLIC WAS NOT AWARE OF WHAT WAS GOING ON’

Thousands Have Demanded Transparency About Controversial Project, Sask. Party Has Put Up Barriers At Every Turn

REGINA – Carla Beck’s team is demanding Scott Moe and the Sask. Party come out of hiding and commit to a proper public consultation on a contentious data centre in the Rural Municipality of Sherwood after a handpicked official admits nothing of the sort has occurred so far.

SASK. PARTY MOOSE JAW MLAS OFFER MIXED MESSAGES ON CONTENTIOUS DATA CENTRE, CONTINUE TO IGNORE THOUSANDS OF CONSTITUENTS

MLA Megan Patterson Literally Cut A Ribbon With Project’s Proponents One Year Ago
MOOSE JAW – One Sask. Party Moose Jaw MLA says a highly contentious data centre in the Valley View area is dead.

CARLA BECK’S TEAM CALLS ON PREMIERS AT SUMMER MEETING TO STAND FOR PUBLIC HEALTHCARE

Danielle Smith, Scott Moe Openly Vouching For Two-Tier, American-Style Model
REGINA – As Canada’s Premiers gather for a summer meeting in Prince Edward Island, Carla Beck’s team is calling out Scott Moe and Danielle Smith for vouching to privatize healthcare — and calling on other Premiers to take a stand for public healthcare.

NDP Caucus Office