Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is pitching a plan to cut federal taxes on diesel fuel and help ensure Canada has affordable supplies of the fuel in the future.
The Conservatives say Canada already produces enough diesel to meet national demand, but transportation bottlenecks leave some regions dependent on U.S. imports.
In April, as global fuel prices rose, Ottawa introduced a temporary suspension of the federal fuel excise tax. It has extended the suspension through January, and will collect 50 per cent of the regular excise tax rate from Feb. 1 through March 31, 2027.
Poilievre proposes eliminating all tax on diesel sales until at least Canada Day by extending the full fuel excise tax cut until July 1 of next year and removing the GST from the purchase of fuel.
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“When farmers and truckers pay more, the price gets passed on to you,” Poilievre said Sunday at a suburban Ottawa gas station.
“Why aren’t we using our oil to power our people? We should be energy independent, and you, the Canadian family, should enjoy the price savings from that.”
Poilievre also advocates removing all diesel production taxes by permanently scrapping the federal industrial carbon tax and the Clean Fuel Standard, which he says adds costs to the production of diesel and discourages new investment in refineries.
The Conservatives want refineries to be excluded from the federal impact assessment process, saying this would not eliminate environmental protection. Refineries would still have to follow federal rules on pollution, wastewater, leaks and monitoring, as well as provincial environmental laws and permits, the party says.
The Conservatives say the overall plan would expand refining capacity, help refineries process more Canadian crude and build the transportation and storage infrastructure needed to supply every region.
The office of Prime Minister Mark Carney had no immediate response to a request for comment on Poilievre’s proposals.
Asked if he envisions Canada eventually transitioning away from diesel, Poilievre said the focus needs to be on affordability.
“Affordable fuel is one of the most important pillars to defeat poverty, enrich our middle class and make our country self-reliant,” he said.
“I do not want to phase out Canadian oil and gas. I want to produce more of it and at a lower price.”
Maybe be should be asking to remove the GST his party created as a “temporary” measure 30 years ago
conservatives are done, they are traitors and would sell us out to America for a buck
Why just until Canada day? Carney promised to remove the carbon tax. He promised to remove the laws that were against Canada and Canadian energy.
This is just a watered down version of the scrap the tax…
Pierre needs to get elected first, not parachuted in like Battle River-Crowfoot.
Lost his seat in Charlton like the ultimate loser.
Ready to throw out the baby with the bath water for a win.
Sheesh!
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Clowns on here complaining that Poilievre wants federal revenue cut by reducing taxes on already over taxed Canadians while we pay a tremendous amount of interest on the Federal Debt Balloon created by the Liberal Party in the first place.
There is no common sense in the Liberal Mind.Their thought processing resembles plaid fabric shredded by an angry cat.
Poli larvae 🐛 the hypocrite.
He rails against deficits but wants to cut federal revenues? It’s nice to be in opposition and piss against the wind.
Pierre E Trudeau wanted to build a nationalized oil industry in Canada in the early 1980s to make Canada independent of US controls on Canadian oil prices. Mulroney got in and pushed through his great Free Trade Agreement and gave the US cheap discounted oil and control of Canada’s oil industry. Now the Conservatives have all the answers?
Thank God Poli larvae 🐛 is only an arm chair quarterback!
It’s a nice thought. But from what we’ve seen over the past decade, this government only makes life more expensive, they are incapable of doing anything to make life cheaper.
LOL! If I was the leader of the world, I would give each person on the planet a monument. You like that? I would also include a hole for snipers.
Hey St…, get your own material
I purpose we eliminate the Conservative party instead.
Why is there no coverage of Houthi attack on East/west pipeline and refinery in Saudi Arabia? Why is it not in coverage that they are in control of bottle neck at South end of red sea? The reason for recent spike in diesel…Nothing. Just tariffs, Hormuz, and Trump….oh and everything conservative baaaad.
Ben the carbon tax stifled our resource sector, our farmers, and our manufactueres. It was an arbitrary tax that lowered our output.
That same resource sector that you said had no business case to be developed because there was somehow a lack of a private sector partner. Total nonsense.
Justin Trudeau ficked up Canada for 11 years….it will probably take that long to straighten out…
Poilievre once blamed the consumer carbon tax on inflation. Once it was gone, he blamed something else. Now he makes this claim. The federal government has already cut the gas tax.
Poilievre wants taxes cut, but wants the deficit cut too. That means cuts to transfers to the provinces for healthcare.
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How about eliminating taxes. R we d torries
Great start…but if Canadians really want to save this country, they will figure out a way to eliminate all Liberal voters by Canada Day
Those brain dead retards ruin everything.
we need much more tax cuts, we are taxed to death. liberals need to go
But, But, Polly! What about the Budget??? You always wine about the Liberals spending !!! Go back to the Reserve!
Another Poilievre initiative for Carney to rip off.