LILLEY: PM Carney should heed Poilievre's call for gas tax cuts |
Cut taxes and cut waste to bring down the cost of gas. That’s the message from Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and it’s really too bad his proposal will fall on Mark Carney’s deaf ears.
As gas prices reach for the stars, this is one of Poilievre’s policies that the prime minister should be stealing.
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In a plan unveiled Thursday morning, Poilievre called for the federal government to suspend the excise tax and the GST on gasoline and diesel until the end of the year. That move, he says, would save drivers about 18 cents a litre on every fill up.
He’s also calling for the cancellation of the Clean Fuel Standard, a carbon tax by another name. That would cut 8 cents a litre at the pump for a total savings of 25 cents per litre.
Other countries already cutting the........