Majority of Canadians oppose coming carbon tax hike: poll

[CdnFox]

https://tnc.news/2024/03/04/canadians-oppose-carbon-tax-hike1/

Seven in 10 Canadians are opposed to the impending increase to the federal carbon tax, according to a new poll.

The Trudeau government will be raising the carbon tax an additional 17 cents per litre of gasoline, 21 cents per litre of diesel and 15 cents per cubic metre of natural gas. 

A poll done by Leger for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation found that the majority of Canadians, 69%, were opposed to the hike, while the remaining 31% were in support of it.

That number would increase to 72% if the poll was to exclude Quebec and British Columbia, where the federal carbon tax isn’t applied directly. 

“The poll is clear: the vast majority of Canadians, across every province and all demographics, oppose the upcoming federal carbon tax hike,” said Franco Terrazzano, CTF’s federal director.

[CdnFox]

This is going to be a complete election killer for trudeau - who already has enough election killers lined up to deal with.

His rise will just make people hate the tax more than they already do (which is substantial).  it'll give PP the better part of a year to drive home how expensive trudeau is making life and there will be no reduction in carbon to show for it.

This is not the hill the libs should have chosen to die on, they're going to wind up getting slaughered. They're basically removing PP's requirement to have a valid climate plan - basically people are going to think anything that doesn't cost them money is better than this.

[herbie]

Sun Rises This Morning.

[blackbird]

Liberals/NDP don't care what Canadians think.  We don't have much of a democracy.  They know they can do whatever they feel like.  They manipulate the media and manipulate other politicians and the system to scam us.

[CdnFox]

49 minutes ago, blackbird said:

Liberals/NDP don't care what Canadians think.  We don't have much of a democracy.  They know they can do whatever they feel like.  They manipulate the media and manipulate other politicians and the system to scam us.

Take a look at the polls.  I don't think they CAN do whatever they want and  i do think some of them are looking at their chances for re election and caring a fair bit.