Cypress Hills MLA Doug Steele says he's a fan of the Saskatchewan government's climate change strategy they passed this past week.

It doesn't include a carbon tax or cap-and-trade system, like the other nine provinces, and the governing Saskatchewan Party gets the sense the federal government isn't about to force one come January, as previously planned.

Steele said he and all other Saskatchewan Party members voted on Wednesday in support of the plan, while all opposition NDP were against it, saying the plan did indeed include a tax on carbon.

"I think it's a made-at-home plan that's going to support our producers and agriculture industry across the province," said Steele. "It's very effective. I really, as a strong believer, we're stewarts of the land. We take care of it, and we've done this for decades and generations before us. We have the support of SUMA, SARM, and APAS."

Steele didn't speculate on how he thought a court challenge would play out if the federal government took Saskatchewan to court for not implementing a carbon tax.

"That's something that I don't have the expertise to really say for sure," he said. "But you know, we'll see where the chips fall. The response to the plan the Federal Environment Minister [Catherine] McKenna appears to signal that Ottawa will not be imposing a carbon tax on Saskatchewan next month. But we'll see how that all falls into place."

Saskatchewan Environment Minister Dustin Duncan said a carbon tax would be very harmful to the trade-dependent province's economy without actually reducing emissions.