TORONTO – Ontario’s Chamber of Commerce is asking the province to reverse course on a plan to make gas stations display stickers on the federal carbon tax.
Chamber president Rocco Rossi says the group’s members – some of whom are gas station operators – believe the stickers violate their rights and freedoms.
The stickers were unveiled earlier this month as the Progressive Conservatives wage an ongoing campaign against the federal government’s carbon price.
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Gas station operators who don’t display government-mandated stickers could be subject to fines of up to $10,000 per day.
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In a letter to Energy Minister Greg Rickford, Rossi calls the fines “out-sized” and the program an example of unnecessary red tape on business.
Rickford defended the stickers, saying in a statement that the federal carbon tax will kill jobs and raise prices, hurting every member of the Ontario Chamber of Commerce.
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