Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is reiterating his call for Prime Minister Mark Carney to extend a pause on Canada’s fuel excise tax, which is set to return on Labour Day.
Ottawa temporarily removed the tax from retail gas sales in April, a measure that will expire on Sept. 7. In a letter to Carney on Sunday, Poilievre argued the tax should remain paused until at least Canada Day 2027.
“When Conservatives first called on you to take all federal taxes off gas and diesel until the new year, Canadians were already struggling with the cost of living,” Poilievre wrote. “Since then, things have not gotten better. They have gotten worse.”
Poilievre said gas prices are rising again and grocery price inflation remains high, pointing to a recent report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, which showed Canada had the highest food price increases in the G7.
Worldwide oil prices remain elevated in the fallout from the Iran war amid supply disruptions and constraints.
The Strait of Hormuz, which normally sees about a fifth of the world’s crude oil and other supplies, is largely closed to cargo traffic for fear of attacks. That’s on top of significant damage done to neighbouring oil, gas, energy and maritime shipping infrastructure and facilities.
The price of U.S. oil, known as West Texas Intermediate, was hovering close to US$82 per barrel as of publication, down from a recent high of about $83 on Wednesday and up from $75 a week earlier.
The Canadian Automobile Association says the national average price for regular grade gasoline in Canada is about CAD$1.67 per litre, up from $1.64 a week ago and from $1.33 at the same time last year.
Carney suspended of the fuel excise tax largely due to the U.S.-Iran war.
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Drivers have been saving about 10 cents per litre on gasoline and four cents per litre on diesel while the pause has been in place.
“A tax hike on fuel is a tax hike on everything,” Poilievre wrote.
It’s not the first time Poilievre has called for an extension of the freeze in recent days, asking on Aug. 6 for Carney to “cancel the hike.”
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Ottawa is also being pressed by the Conservative leader to not only drop the excise tax, but to remove all taxes on gas as well, saying it would save Canadians even more money.
“This would lower the price at the pump and make groceries, home building materials and other products that are transported more affordable to Canadians,” Poilievre said in a news conference on Sunday.
Asked if it’s considering keeping the pause in place, a spokesperson for Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne pointed to the 2025 budget and spring economic update as how it “took aim at rising costs.” But they did not say if a further pause in the excise tax was being considered.
“The government will continue to pursue measures with the provinces that advance our growth and competitiveness agenda, lower costs and the sources of them, and that respond to the challenging global economic environment Canada and indeed the world finds itself in right now,” the spokesperson wrote in an email.
Poilievre isn’t the only politician urging Carney to extend the excise tax pause. Earlier this month, Ontario Premier Doug Ford asked Carney to extend the suspension of the fuel excise tax until at least Jan. 1, or consider making the suspension permanent.
The prices consumers pay for gasoline and diesel at retail are based on a combination of factors, including global expectations of supply and demand for crude oil, in addition to various taxes and other charges businesses may pass along to consumers.
The federal excise tax charged on products such as gasoline is separate from other taxes, such as HST, which remains in effect.
Depending on the region, bringing back the excise tax could mean an increase of roughly 10 cents to 11 cents per litre, according to Dan McTeague, president of Canadians for Affordable Energy.
—with files from Global News’ Ariel Rabinovitch
He cares about Persians and Jews but when a synagogue in Iran was bombed by Israel…. Pierre remains silent.
Jacob Flickinger’s murder investigation was a sham. And again… Pierre is silent.
But silent about the AB gas tax… where is his seat again? Can he even remember…Why doesn’t Poilievre demand Danielle Smith do the same?
Everytime we vote conservative, they give us feel-good $10 while stealing $100 from our backpocket in the same while giving $10000s to their buddies.
Elizabeth: Canada has the highest food inflation in the G7. If you had all those grand children as you state you would know this.
Every time we vote liberal, people lose their lifestyle, freedoms and rights bit by bit. It’s only when their income, recreation, privacy and lifestyle noticeably start being affected by these lost freedoms that their eyes are opened. They were blind to what was happening to veterans and working class people for years until the middle class became part of the working class.
Enjoy the food bank. You voted for it.
Every thing Carney said he was going to do he hasn’t.
Another empty liberal.
Vote smarter, Canada deserves better
Poli whoever can go pound sand.
@Ann. Who said I was a woman? By the way I have 15 grandchildren and 8 great grandchildren with more on the way. I’m making sure to pass my values onto future generations. You take care now dear.
If you love this country Mr. Poilievre, you would support Canada in its fight with the USA and stop the politicking. Trade is a more important issue now.
Go home to the Reserve you came from idiot!
PP is negative numbers in popularity, he does not deserve air time! His opinion means absolutely nothing and Canadians know he’s done.
Elizabeth at 11:56 am. You elbowz up fools have caused my children and grandchildren to suffer for 11 years! You voted for this liberal fool, you too should suffer. And when is inflation under control? Women like you, give women like me a bad name!
Memo to liberals.
The liberals don’t have a revenue problem. they have a spending problem.
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@Far far right. Does it matter how Poilievre is spelled? Trump has a better approval rating than 18%.
Who the hell is polieve?
With the deficit at an all time high, why is Poilievre calling for this? Does he want to burden my grandchildren further with debt? Inflation is under control except for gas prices caused by the Trump Iran war. And why isn’t 18% Poilievre calling for an election?
With stats Canada saying that inflation was up again in July it would be a smart move for Carney to extend the fuel tax implementation until Canada Day 2027. But as we know from news today the Sovereign Wealth Fund Carney set up in the UK has lost over $400 Million in just 2 years, and he is going to do the same thing here in Canada with his proposed wealth fund for Canadians. The guy is just plain incompetent.
I wish Carney would call an election to wipe out PP who is at 18% in the polls.
Notice PP stopped calling for an election like he did every day for three years?
He’d win maybe ten seats to beat Kim Campbell when she won TWO for these rednecks.
Stay in Detroit PP but maybe don’t wear your Liberace outfit there.
Oh here we go again: Carney and the Liberals are bad, but PP can do no wrong. It’s be as bad or worse if PP and the Cons were in power. So many dumb sheep here don’t get it: all politicians are bad, and humanity is doomed because we can’t work together and too many humans are evil and corrupt. But keep making your funny LiBz comments, that really helps!!
Liberals love implementing taxes on holidays because they think people will be too busy to pay attention.
Pay attention, Canadians are already taxed to death
Carney makes nations poor. Ask the UK.
And why would he pick “Canada Day”? It is a national holiday. It doesn’t carry any significance regarding oil prices. Poilievre increases fuel prices just before summer vacation season” Is that the headline? He is always doing political grandstanding. His policy is “whatever Carney is not doing”. A good leader would come up with their own policies.
Anonymous…… Educate yourself on what a security clearance does. If Poilievre gets a security clearance he is not allowed to talk about the dirty government backroom deals. If he does, he can be officially charged. This is why he chooses not to. So he can tell Canadians what is actually going on.
Another liberal tax will sure help Canadians affordability /S
Just remember, this doesn’t just cost you at the pump, every step of putting food on your table will be affected by this.
Mr. 18% Poilievre wants to raise the deficit then complain about it. 🤦
Benoit, you are an idiot chearleader for your fellow idiots, we get it. Now go back to drooling in your corner.
I see Statscan has come up with a new propaganda stat Global News won’t allow discussions on.
This is why Pierre Poilievre will never be Prime Minister.
Canada needs the money from us citizens to pay the interest on the massive debt the Liberals have created for Canada.
Carney’s Brookfield Assets needs more backroom contracts to enrich Carney and his rich buddies.
Refugees need money for deluxe hotel rooms with room service while they wait for government subsidized jobs.
Carney needs hundreds of thousands of dollars for his catering on flights around the world where he begs investment to buy Canadian companies then move those companies out of Canada.
The Federal Government needs to subsidize foreign companies to set up here only to leave after they received the money.
Without people’s money what would the Liberals do?
Hi my name is Ben.I also go by various other psydodyms with “Ben” somewhere in their spelling. Today I am trying some new ones such as “Debbie Downer the Conservative “and ,”Brian James ”
You can tell it’s me because of the repetitive “18%in the polls”.You see,I’m not very bright so between the “Ben ” thing and my repetitive posting under other psydodyms I am clearly showing my own incompetence. That’s why I support Mark Carney and the Liberal Party because as they say ” Birds of a Feather “
I wish gas was only 1.67 here. 1.85
If Poilievre wants to be taken seriously he should get his security clearance so he can personally participate in the meetings that are a national concern.
Without the clearance he has to sit in the other room at the kids’ table while the adults discuss the business of the gov’t.
Didn’t Careny say Canada is its best customers ant that we should vacation in Canada. Meanwhile he takes vacations in Italy. Canada not good enough for him
Wow, I can see quite a few liberals are mentally ill. I’m no pp fan, nor do I like to be fucked over time and time again by the current government. But to not be upset about some of these decisions is mindblowing. If it were a fucken monkey telling the liberals to hold off on fuel taxes it would be different.
Carney has totally dropped the ball of Trump tariffs. Total failure.
Let’s just blame Poilievre for everything!
That’s liberal way of running a country!
When you are failing at your policies PP and Trump is your fall guys
Unlike your average Canadian, the Liberal troll bot would prefer to pay more fuel tax than admit Pierre is right.
Carney encourages Canadians to holiday in Canada and yet he has taken two European holidays. The latest just before US/Canada trade deadline.
Carney is Canada’s number one foreign worker. Over 91 percent invested in the US, his wife works in the US and his children go to school there.
Calls Europe his home and has described himself as an European in the past.
I’m very sad that Poilievre is at 18% in the polls so I guess I’ll lash out at Carney, even though Trump is threatening Canada. It’s all about ME.
The Debbie Downer MAGA conservatives who constantly bleat about Carney make it clear who they support: Trump. Trade threats from the US hover over us and they just complain.
When Canadians are facing the worst affordability issue this country has seen in very long time why is Carney even considering more tax increases?
Must be because his money is safely tucked away in offshore tax havens.
Poilievre pops up and asks the Liberals to do something they were already considering. Is this useful when we are faced with threats from the USA? No. It’s just to distract from his failed leadership.
Pierre Poilievre, Mr. 18% should instead of telling Cons to fight for Canadians he should do for Canadians. Canadians are fed up with you & would prefer someone else. Its time for you to get a job and stop dipping in Canadian pockets. 18% its time to wake up and smell the coffee you are done.
Polievre just wants to spend money.
Anonymous I thought that you said that you were done. Maybe you should find a new way to make a living as typos and grammar issues aside, you linked deficits to setting of interest rates.
Why doesn’t Poilievre tell Danielle Smith the same? Whatever this man says means nothing in my opinion.
Anyone who is interested in how their mortgage rate or is mostly determined, please look up “bond rates interest rates”. Then you’ll get the facts. What do I know though, I do this for a living. 🤷♀️
Anonymous, you can be done all you want. Doesn’t change the fact that the BoC sets the policy interest rate, and banks follow through instantaneously. All done to control money supply. None of this has to do with government deficit, which you brought up earlier.
Let me guess, you think Carney saved our economy back in 2008.
@Anon. Government bond yields have a direct impact on interest rates, mortgages, etc. Monetary policy much less so. The size of hovernment debt and deficits have a direct impact on government bond yields. The layperson thinks interest rates are determined by the Bank of Canada. Economists know the BoC has some effect on interest rates, but bond yields are more important. I’m done with you.
It would be nice if the Carney Liberals would stop looking for new ways to tax us all the time, and roll back some of the pointless taxes we have now and stop giving our money away.
Canadians are having a hard enough time with inflation and shrinkflation and many have to choose between paying rent or buying food.
@Benoit – What do you want PP to do here? It doesn’t seem Carney is including him on this process. Team Canada seems to be Carney and Liberal partisan.
Anonymous, “Monetary policy has limited effect on interest rates.”
Wow. Monetary policy is completely handled by the BoC, and interest rates the biggest thing that the BoC impacts. It has nothing to do with deficit. My god, no wonder you keep electing liberals.
Benoit is a joke.
It is not the oppositions job to be a Liberal team mate in our “trade war” that Carney got us into and said he would get us out.
The opposition is there to hold the Liberal accountable for their mistakes.
Stop deflecting the blame.
Poilievre, instead of working with the Carney government to stave off tariffs, is trying to score political points again. At 18% in the polls, he’s trying really hard to be relevant.
But all Canadian money belongs to the government in Carney’s world. Why leave it with the peasants when he’s so much more capable of making the right decisions for its use?
@Anon Monetary policy has limited effect on interest rates. Bond rates are more tied to interest rates. Look at the USA where mortgage rates in certain cases are rising.
Pp talked about axing the consumer carbon tax years before the Liberals thought about it, in fact they demonized PP and said he was a climate denier for wanting to terminate the consumer carbon tax. Carney then flips flops on his own values (he wrote a book that included carbon taxes) and puts the tax to zero stating it was “divisive”. Total about face.
Liberals need to do what we actually want them to do oelr face an army.
Carney’s wife and children should too but I doubt they love him…
Better yet – lets remove it altogether
I think the current Federal government should do more to not be beaten to death by their neighbours.
Axe the tax.
Eat an apple.
Jail no bail.
Vote for me.
Smack my head.
I am peer.
You are not.
Anonymous wrote “So Poilievre wants to raise the deficit, which will raise bond prices and interest rates, and cause inflation? What planet is this guy from?”
No genius. He wants to permantly remove a tax, and at the same time that can reduce the need for grocery rebate. That rebate, like all rebates, is full of government inefficiency and gives us cents back on our dollars.
And none of what you wrote raises bond prices and interest rates. That is in the hand of monetary policy, not fiscal.
Why would we cut thr CBC, which prevents the US, a cultural behometh, from taking over Canada culturally? The MAGA crowd has a 51st state fetish.
So Poilievre wants to raise the deficit, which will raise bond prices and interest rates, and cause inflation? What planet is this guy from?
Jan Dixon is on point. Carney was special economic advisor to Trudeau, and advised against exporting LNG because he was always pro carbon tax. Now he is traveling the globe trying to make those same exact deals for LNG.
I recall when both Trudeau and Carney stated there was “no business “ case regarding exporting of LNG. They Carney flip flopped and stole PPs idea about expanding LNG in Western Canada for Asian markets. Carney seems to like to take credit of others work, just like Jim Flaherty.
@Me.
No Sean is erroneous.
@Benoit. Yes cut the fuel tax and make up for it in other area. Cut CBC, Carney travelling, pump more oil and gas, grow the economy and increase incoming revenue.
@Anonymous. There is savings. Perhaps shop for the cheapest gas in your area.
Liberals made gasoline needlessly expensive for many years with their so called consumer carbon tax which they said was required because of a climate emergency. Then they flip flopped and cancelled it because it was “divisive”.
Common sense from Pierre while Carney lies on a beach in Italy in his speedos
Benoît, why keep a tax and at the same time have a grocery rebate which due to government inefficiency only gives cents back on the dollar?
The gas companies raised their prices 10 cents to allow for the 10cent federal tax reduction. There were no savings. The government wants people to believe they got a break. Thay didn’t
@benoit The deficit and debt are a creation of the Trudeau and Carney Liberals policies of deficit spending which have resulted in a doubling of our national debt since 2015 and the only way the Liberals have is to tax and tax and tax Canadians into oblivion. The Conservative answer is to allow the Canadian business community to do what it does and create wealth in Canada not poverty as we see happening under the Liberals. Homelessness, poverty, record use of food banks, the highest food prices in the G7, paying over a BILLION dollars EVERY WEEK just to pay the interest on the Liberal debt. I could go on ad infinitum but I think Canadians with common sense get my point.
Better still, Carney should resign. Liberals are morally bankrupt and extremely stupid.
Problem is they need the tax revenue to pay down the .$1,5 trillion dollar debt they have taken on in order to pay for all the government dependency that Candians demand because they are incapable of looking after themselves
So Poilievre wants the fuel tax suspended AND he wants the deficit reduced? No wonder he is at 18% in the polls-Canadians know he doesn’t understand budgeting.
When Carney won nomination to lead the Liberal Party, after taking credit for the work done in 2008 by the late Jim Flaherty, his first three policy announcements were carbon copy from the conservatives. And people believed that B$ and voted for him. That describes the state of our democracy
The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because its handle was made of wood, it was one of them.
The Liberals keep telling Canadians that they have their best interest in mind but they keep creating more taxes that make Canadian food prices the highest in the G7, but Canadians keep voting for the Liberals.
Wow the only one on here that is correct is Sean Webb
If reinstating the tax on Labour Day isn’t the biggest slap in our faces by the Laurentian Elites, then I don’t know what is. They want to push normal middle class and working class people down because they hate us.
Pp fighting for everyday Canadians, meanwhile Carney takes opulent vacations to Italy and spends $150k on inflight catering.
A great idea. Carney Liberals won’t like it as they prefer to pay more taxes for extreme gender ideology initiatives.
Send Carney a polite but firm email demanding he stops the reinstatement of the fuel tax on Labour Day. His email is pm@pm.gc.ca. Keep it respectful.
For all of the moaning about federal and provincial gas taxes the politicians who take money from fossil fuel companies are incredibly reluctant to talk about talk about how willing the fossil fuel companies are to raise prices to astronomical levels simply because they can. The cost of living hasn’t increased because government impose a tax on those who pollute and use the roads and highways. The cost of living is high because of the greed of “energy” companies. And those who take their money to run their political campaigns have show who their real constituents are.
Maybe our taxpayer funded/subsidized news media coild actually do their job, and do some actual investigative journalism. It would be nice if they could actually release more articles about the actual government in power. You know, the one qith a majority government? But instead, all we hear is Pierre, Pierre, Pierre, Trump, Trump, Trump. I guess it’s hard to prop up the hand that feeds you when they are ab absolute failure.
Poilievre throwing facts,Liberals deflecting them desperately trying to protect their soft leader Carney the Caveman.
Highest food prices in the G7 according to a reputable organization and STILL the Elbowzos will say Carney is doing a good job. How many times do Canadians have to be slapped across the face with the facts before they remove their rose coloured glasses and wake up to the fact that Carney is just Trudeau in a suit, and an empty one at that. WAKE UP CANADA !!!
Hey Brian, they already petty stopped doing all that any way. Roads in rich mans land get paved and they get both sidewalks installed on both sides of the streets whether its developed or not.
If Carney had balls and brains and felt anything at all for Canadians, he would scrap this stupid tax altogether.
Stop repairing roads and highways and anything else the gas tax is used to pay for until it is reinstated.
ATTENTION EVERYONE…..PIERRE HAS SPOKEN!!!! As Bugs Bunny said…..what a maroon!!!