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Originally Posted by iggy_oi
If you cherry pick the data, yes it would look as though it will be more expensive here. However if you take the average price of Edmonton and Calgary, and compare it to the average of Saskatoon and Regina over the last 4 years, you will see it's still likely to be cheaper here in the long run. When businesses plan things like moving an operation to a different province, which method of calculation do you think they will base their decisions on?
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Its not just going to be the carbon tax and its cascade effect that's going to chase them out of the province.
But two big factors are if they move out of province they become carbon exempt in terms of importing goods into Alberta which means that their heating and power and property taxes and rents are probably going to be a lot cheaper if they move to Saskatchewan. In distribution its backbone is around unskilled workers which are going to be cheaper in another province.
They won't completely shut down distribution in Alberta obviously, but they'll shrink their footprints here to essentially sorting centers while their main hubs leave which will cost a lot of jobs.