The Canadian Taxpayers Federation’s 24th Annual Gas Tax Honesty Report shows that Canadian drivers in 2022 paid an average of 55 cents per litre in gasoline taxes (based on a retail price of $1.76 per litre; exact tax rates vary by province, of course). Combining that information with Statistics Canada data estimating total gasoline consumption of 42.5 billion litres in 2022 means that Canadian drivers collectively pay over $23 billion in road use taxes annually to all levels of government.
Meanwhile, EV drivers continue to pay nothing. Besides the grievous disparity of this situation, Trudeau’s EV mandate would gradually remove gasoline and diesel-fuelled vehicles from the road. Then who will pay to maintain the roads for all those EVs to travel on? Clearly, EVs will need to be taxed in some way, and some provinces are just starting to do so, like Saskatchewan’s $150 extra annual registration fee on EVs, introduced in late 2021. But such baby steps will need to get a lot larger if gasoline-powered vehicles really do start vanishing from daily traffic. But having to start paying their share to maintain roads will make EVs even less attractive to car buyers.
https://c2cjournal.ca/2024/06/the-pawns-push-back-against-the-trudeau-governments-electric-vehicle-diktats/
Write to your Member of Parliament Representative who was not elected as a Liberal, but was instead Block, NDP, Green or Conservative, etc. Let them know that you support them through the party they are elected through and that you will continue to to support their party and will not support any choice to cross the floor to the Liberal Party. Let them know that you appreciate integrity and to cross the floor would in fact betraying you as a voter in their area.
OPEN LETTER TO MY MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT
(Template — copy/paste, fill in the brackets, send or post publicly.)
Dear [MP Name],
I’m writing as a constituent of [Riding/Community] to be clear about something that matters to many voters: I supported you because you ran and were elected as a member of [Party]. That party, its platform, and its values were part of the choice voters made.
For that reason, I do not support any decision to cross the floor to the Liberal Party (or any other party you did not run under). Crossing the floor would not be a minor adjustment—it ...
