Conservative MP Andrew Scheer is visiting Sault Ste. Marie to voice his party’s opposition to the Liberal government’s plan to increase its carbon tax April 1.
The Conservatives say the carbon tax negatively affects all Canadians, raising the cost of fuel for farmers who produce food and the truckers who ship food to grocery stores, who in turn increase their prices for consumers. The carbon tax — officially known as the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act — came into effect at $20 per tonne in 2019. It has increased since then and is scheduled to rise by 23 per cent from $65 per tonne to $80 per tonne on April 1. By 2030. the price on carbon would add nearly 40 cents per litre of fuel for Canadian motorists. “That’s a fair question,” Scheer said.
“What the Liberals have done is focus on a narrow set of direct costs associated with the carbon tax. When they designed their rebate that’s all they took into account. What they didn’t take into account is all the tax’s effects on the economy like the farmer who produces the food, the trucker that ships the food, the retailer that sells the food, they all have to pay the carbon tax and that all gets built into the price and it gets passed on to consumers. The rebate doesn’t capture that.
“We really have to incentivize municipalities to get new homes on the market, to remove the red tape, to speed up approvals, to streamline application processes with a goal to build. What Pierre Poilievre has talked about is rewarding communities that can show a marked increase in home construction with extra infrastructure dollars, and for those that don’t, they won’t have access to those funds,” Scheer said.
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