Saskatchewan’s Refusal to Pay Home Heating Carbon Tax Could Play Out Many Ways Besides Jail

Don’t expect to see Saskatchewan’s Crown Investments Minister Dustin Duncan slapped in handcuffs and hauled off to jail by Ottawa over carbon tax non-payment, even if that’s a theoretical possibility, say experts. There are other ways than incarceration that the political showdown could play out after Saskatchewan’s refusal to pay the carbon tax on natural gas. “I don’t think any government wants to make a martyr of their opponent,” said Ken Coates, a MacDonald Laurier Institute distinguished fellow and professor of indigenous governance at Yukon University, told The Epoch Times. “And [arrest] would certainly be a martyrdom of the highest order.”...