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The Canadian Chamber of Commerce has come out as being is favour of carbon pricing as one element in the fight against climate change.

With a network of more than 450 chambers of commerce and boards of trade, representing 200,000 businesses of all sizes in all sectors of the economy and in all regions, the national chamber are the largest business association in Canada.
However the Yorkton Chamber of Commerce is not among those in favour of the national organization鈥檚 position on the carbon tax.

鈥淭here is a suggestion all the Chambers are unified and it鈥檚 not true,鈥� said Mike Stackhouse, policy chairman with the Yorkton chamber.

The national chamber may have held a vote where the majority were in favour, but Stackhouse said the Saskatchewan Chamber of Commerce as a whole, and Yorkton in particular are not in favour of a carbon tax.

鈥淪askatchewan respectfully disagrees, and Yorkton respectfully disagrees,鈥� he said.

Locally, the opposition is so strong that a provincial recommendation that money from the new tax, if implemented, go to small-and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) was discussed by the local board and then defeated as a motion.

Stackhouse said they were not ready to start supporting how the tax money be used on a tax they said locally they still hope is never implemented.

Stackhouse said the Yorkton chamber does realize there is little they can do to change the national position, or influence the carbon tax decision, but they will remain opposed until the tax is implemented. At that point it will be time to begin the discussion of where the money generated should go.