“I want the government to axe fuel taxes this year. Canadians need relief at the pumps and the grocery store. The government's measly cut isn't enough. Scrap the excise tax, GST, carbon tax, and clean fuel standard tax. Canadians shouldn't have to pick between food or gas.”
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Fuel Taxes
A Conservative MP called for the Liberal government to scrap all federal gas and diesel taxes for the rest of the year to provide relief to Canadians struggling with high fuel prices. The MP criticized a Liberal proposal to only cancel a third of the taxes for a third of the year as insufficient. The debate focused on this substantive policy disagreement between the parties.