LILLEY: Trudeau's gift to you this Canada Day, a tax hike

The headline of the Cape Breton Post declared, “There are no more Sunday drives.”, including Liberal Andrew Furey, have called for the federal government to hit pause on this. They cite their unique economies, the cost of living crisis and the dependence on fuels like heating oil in their requests to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.Article content

Furey has called the federal government’s handling of this issue “insulting” and has declared that Trudeau is out of touch with the reality of Atlantic Canadians. Not that Trudeau is about to change his mind, it’s full steam ahead for his double whammy carbon tax on the East Coast. It’s no shock then that Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has been spending time visiting the region over the past several days with his “axe the tax” tour. He’s drawn crowds of 700 and more in small towns like Truro, Nova Scotia – a place with a population of just 12,000 people.Trudeau can afford to ignore people upset about the carbon tax in Alberta or Saskatchewan but he can’t do the same in Nova Scotia, PEI, New Brunswick, or Newfoundland and Labrador.

It will be fascinating to see if that changes in the days after the two carbon taxes kick in on the East Coast, as the price of gas goes up now and the cost of heating your home goes up in the fall and winter. Government’s get into trouble when they stop listening to the population they lead and Trudeau is no longer listening, not if you disagree with him at all.

That’s a dangerous spot for politicians, so don’t be surprised if this Canada marks the beginning of the end for the Trudeau government. Unlike the tax hike, that would be something worth celebrating.

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