Winter is coming and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax is punishing Canadians for heating their homes.
The carbon tax hits the essential needs of our daily lives hard. It increases the cost of gasoline, diesel, natural gas, propane and furnace oil. Right now, the federal carbon tax is set at $50 per tonne, costing an extra 11 cents per litre of gasoline and 13 cents per litre of diesel. It costs families about $8 extra to fill up their minivans or about $13 extra to fill a pickup truck.
The tax doesn’t just bite when you drive to work and drop the kids off at school. It makes nearly everything cost more, because most of the stuff we use is delivered by big rig trucks running on diesel. Each time truckers fill-up the tanks it costs about $120 extra in the carbon tax.
The Trudeau government charges a carbon tax of 9.8 cents per cubic meter of natural gas, 7.7 cents per litre of propane and 15.9 cents per litre of furnace oil.
A family sent us their monthly bill showing they bought 1,000 litres of propane. The carbon tax on that amount is $77.
Trudeau is going to more than triple his carbon tax within eight years and add a second carbon tax this summer. Canadians will be paying more than triple what they are currently paying in the carbon tax, plus extra for the second carbon tax. People who can’t afford this carbon tax punishment should send their heat bills to Members of Parliament.
Franco Terrazzano, director, Canadian Taxpayers Federation
