Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is once again urging Ottawa to scrap the upcoming fuel excise tax hike in September, and this time also to suspend all federal gas taxes until next summer.
Poilievre made the request at a news conference in Vancouver on Aug. 16, saying that Canadians are already struggling with the rising cost of living. He noted that since his party called on the federal government in April to pause all taxes on gas and diesel for the remainder of the year, “things have gotten worse.”
“That’s why Conservatives are calling on the Carney Liberals to cancel their September gas-tax hike and eliminate all gas taxes from now until at least Canada Day,” he said, specifically calling for the suspension of the fuel excise tax and the GST on gas and diesel, as well as the permanent elimination of the clean fuel standard and industrial carbon tax….