Saskatchewan election: Carbon tax will be exempt from home heating through 2025, Sask. Party says [Video]

The Saskatchewan Party says that it plans to keep the federal carbon tax off natural gas and electricity used for up to home heating for one more year if re-elected on Oct. 28.

The Sask. Party stopped collecting federal carbon tax on home heating from Saskatchewan residents shortly after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made home heating oil exempt from the embattled tax on pollution in the fall of 2023.

The decision prompted Ottawa to threaten legal action if the money owed from the tax was not remitted.

Party Leader Scott Moe said at the time the decision was divisive and not fair to most Canadians as home heating oil is used primarily in Atlantic Canada.

On Tuesday, Moe said the natural gas exemption will be extended until the end of 2025, while electricity used for home heating would be exempt from the federal carbon tax from Nov. 1 until April 30, 2025.

According to the Sask. Party, the natural gas exemption will save the …