Scott Moe releases list of 10 changes Ottawa 'must make' to reset relationship with Sask.

Alexander Quon · CBC News

· Posted: May 14, 2025 8:03 PM EDT | Last Updated: 7 minutes ago

Premier Scott Moe has published a missive helium sent to Prime Minister Mark Carney outlining 10 argumentation changes the national authorities "must make" successful bid to reset the narration betwixt Ottawa and Saskatchewan.

Moe wrote successful a Wednesday post connected societal media that Carney has the quality to quickly move to code the 10 items. 

"[That] would intelligibly awesome a new, much affirmative narration betwixt Saskatchewan and the national authorities than we person had for the past 10 years," Moe wrote, referencing the strained narration his provincial authorities had with premier curate Justin Trudeau. 

Moe's demands include: 

• The immediate launch of negotiations with China successful bid to region tariffs connected cultivation food products, a notation to the 100 per cent tariff China has placed connected Canadian canola lipid and peas. 
• The extremity to a fig of national policies meant to little c emissions, such arsenic the concern c tax and cleanable energy regulations.
• Changes to the Criminal Code to code bail betterment and the instauration of harsher penalties to combat "new thoroughfare drugs."
• Expansion of pipeline capableness crossed Canada and the opening of obstruction and larboard capacity. 
• Reduction of national "red tape" successful bid to streamline national support of infrastructure projects and trim "infringement" into provincial jurisdiction

Many of the topics were raised by Moe during a property league aft past month's federal election.

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Moe's missive was explicit successful his insistence the national government not enforce the national backstop connected the concern c tax.

Moe's government eliminated the provincial output-based show standards program, which taxed ample concern emitters, astatine the commencement of this month.

The missive alludes to a conversation Moe and Carney had connected May 1, during which the premier says he raised the 10 argumentation changes.

Moe is the latest premier to merchandise a privation database of projects and policies helium wants to spot addressed by the national authorities nether Carney, whose Liberals won a number authorities successful the April 28 national election.

Unlike his counterparts, Moe's missive does not place a singular task helium wants assistance on. For example, Ontario Premier Doug Ford highlighted a request for national enactment connected a passageway nether Highway 401. 

Moe is scheduled to clasp a quality league connected Thursday greeting to people the extremity of the outpouring legislative session, and it's expected he'll person much to adhd connected his database of demands astatine that time. 

AgriStability gathering moving ahead

On Wednesday, the province's Official Opposition urged Moe's Saskatchewan Party authorities to assistance farmers facing China's tariffs connected canola.

The NDP says the state needs to motion connected to the national AgriStability program, which is meant to protect producers against melodramatic increases successful costs and changing marketplace conditions.

Daryl Harrison, Saskatchewan's curate of agriculture, said those efforts are already underway.

"The national government's projected changes to the programme haven't been implemented. Once a national ag curate has been appointed, negotiations volition proceed astir programme enhancements," Harrison said during question period. 

Harrison added that helium has a gathering scheduled for Thursday greeting with Heath MacDonald, who was named arsenic the caller national agriculture curate connected Tuesday.