🇨🇦 Poilievre Wants to Kill the Gas Tax — Liberals Have Been Bleeding You Dry for Years

Canadians pay 28 cents per litre more than Americans at the pump — not because of geography or crude prices, but because Ottawa deliberately stacked three separate taxes on top of each other: the fuel excise tax at 10 cents, the Clean Fuel Standard at 7 cents, and the GST at 8 cents. Pierre Poilievre's plan to zero them out for the rest of the year would save Canadians roughly 25 cents per litre and permanently kill the Clean Fuel Standard entirely. That last part matters — it's not a pause, it's a burial.

The Liberals built this regime tax by tax, year by year, and called it climate policy. What it actually was: a transfer from working Canadians who drive to work to a political class that flies to climate summits. While the Iran war spiked global oil prices, it didn't create the Canada-U.S. price gap — Liberal ideology did. Poilievre is finally naming the number. Now the question is whether the new government has the spine to act on it.

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