OTTAWA — Fresh from his byelection win returning him to the House of Commons, Canada’s Conservative leader is taking aim at “Carbon Tax 2.0.”
Speaking to reporters from a gas station in P.E.I.’s capital of Charlottetown, Pierre Poilievre said Wednesday morning that Prime Minister Mark Carney’s axing of the consumer carbon tax wasn’t what it seemed — claiming the government’s Clean Fuel Regulations (CFR) will force Canadians to pay at the pumps what they would have saved through the elimination of the carbon tax.
“According to the Parliamentary Budget Officer, it will add 17 cents per litre to gas,” Poilievre said. “What did the last carbon tax add to your gas? Seventeen cents per litre. The new tax is starting to look a lot like the old tax, and Mark Carney thinks no one will notice.”