Stop what you’re doing and look around.

Pretty much everything you see, from the shoes on your feet to the smartphone in your hands, was brought to you on a truck.

The Canadian Trucking Alliance just confirmed what common sense already made clear: The carbon tax is a huge tax on trucking, which makes “virtually every good” more expensive.

The CTA estimates the carbon tax will cost the Canadian trucking industry about $2 billion this year.

And that’s just for long-haul truckers. That estimate doesn’t include the thousands of short-haul truck trips within provinces.
Right now, the federal carbon tax is set at $80 per tonne.

That translates to 17 cents extra per litre of gasoline, 21 cents extra per litre of diesel, 15 cents extra per cubic metre of natural gas and 12 cents extra per litre of propane.

When truckers fill up their fuel tanks, they’re using hundreds of litres of diesel to haul our essential........

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