Canada election: Carney, Poilievre spar over whether consumer carbon tax is really dead

The decease of North America's archetypal c tax

Hi, I'm a writer based successful Prince George, B.C.

This morning, British Columbia joined the national authorities successful repealing its c taxation aft a late-night legislative league that ended astatine 1:30 a.m. PT aimed astatine fast-tracking the policy.

B.C. was really the archetypal jurisdiction successful North America to present wide c pricing done a user tax, successful 2008. The argumentation was fashionable for years, surviving left- and right-leaning governments.

But Premier David Eby says it became "toxic," successful portion due to the fact that of Poilievre's palmy "axe the tax" run astatine the national level. The messaging was picked up by the Conservative Party of B.C., which astir unseated the NDP successful past year's provincial election.

Eby says B.C. volition present absorption connected concern emitters.

With the removal of the c taxation today, 1 adept says determination volition beryllium immoderate outgo savings passed connected to consumers astir immediately.

Andrew Leach, an vigor and biology economist astatine the University of Alberta, said the cancelled taxation volition beryllium felt astir instantly astatine the state pump.

The terms connected contamination for gasoline translated to a outgo of astir 17.6 cents per litre up until today. Leach said it's apt that magnitude volition travel disconnected wrong a substance of days, and information from gaswizard.ca, shown successful the graphic above, appears to carnivore that out.

"It is simply a point-of-sale complaint … truthful you should spot it travel disconnected astir instantly," Leach told our workfellow Abby Hughes.

If state prices dropped by 17.6 cents a litre arsenic a effect of the taxation coming off, you'd prevention astir $8.80 erstwhile filling a car with a modular 50-litre state tank.

You tin work much astir however the extremity of the c taxation could interaction your pocketbook here.

Canada won’t ‘disadvantage’ its ain workers connected tariffs

Ahead of “tariff-palooza” tomorrow, arsenic my workfellow Alex Panetta called it, Carney spoke again astir his caller telephone with Trump. He reiterated the 2 agreements they made during that call.

The archetypal was that aft the election, the U.S. president and the adjacent premier curate volition beryllium down and statesman broad negotiations; and the 2nd was that Canada’s furniture ministers volition beryllium successful adjacent interaction with their U.S. counterparts until then.

Carney said Canada volition enforce retaliatory measures connected the U.S. “if determination are further [tariffs] enactment successful spot against Canada tomorrow,” and restated that the government’s program is to hold and spot earlier showing its hand.

“We volition not disadvantage Canadian producers and Canadian workers comparative to American workers,” helium said.

Liberals looking for caller campaigner successful Markham-Unionville

Asked astir Liberal campaigner Paul Chiang’s determination to measurement down past nighttime — Chiang was criticized for saying that Conservative campaigner Joe Tay beryllium turned successful to the Chinese consulate successful speech for a bounty — Carney kept his effect brief.

“Mr. Chiang offered his resignation past night. I accepted it. As I said yesterday, his comments were profoundly troubling and regrettable. We volition determination connected looking guardant with a caller campaigner for Markham[-Unionville], and I’ll permission it astatine that.”

Tariff-palooza time: 4 p.m. ET Wednesday

After promising worldwide tariffs for 2 years, since the commencement of his predetermination campaign, Trump volition marque it authoritative Wednesday.

The White House has conscionable issued an advisory announcing Trump volition uncover his tariff argumentation astatine 4 p.m. ET tomorrow.

At an lawsuit successful the White House Rose Garden, surrounded by members of his administration, the president volition denote his plans for tariffs connected antithetic countries and industries.

There’s a batch we inactive don’t know, specified arsenic whether the tariffs volition deed industries, oregon full countries, oregon the full satellite with level tariff rates.

Trump has repeatedly adjusted the details successful his nationalist remarks, and adjacent successful caller days determination person been inconsistent leaks successful U.S. media.

Carney touts Liberal grounds connected affordability, but doesn’t accidental thing new

During a run announcement successful Winnipeg this morning, Carney listed Liberal policies aimed astatine improving affordability — but helium didn’t denote thing new.

Instead, helium took a triumph thigh connected the extremity of the user c taxation and doubled down connected his commitments to $10/day kid attraction and the nationalist dental attraction program. He besides re-upped promises to region the GST connected caller homes nether $1 million, spur the improvement of affordable lodging and chopped the taxation complaint for the lowest taxation bracket.

Mexican-Canadian elector disquieted astir ‘the aboriginal for our kids’

Hello from Kingsville and Leamington, 2 southwestern Ontario towns wherever I americium reporting unrecorded contiguous connected CBC News Network. These communities are hubs for greenhouse rootlike growers, and I'll person much to study connected that aboriginal today.

Leamington has a ample Mexican community, successful portion due to the fact that of workplace workers who came to enactment present and stayed. We popped into Tacos Tony and met proprietor Maria Hernandez, who immigrated to Canada much than 30 years ago.

While serving tasty tacos and different authentic Mexican dishes past nighttime to some Mexican and Canadian customers, Maria shared what's connected her caput during this election.

"The aboriginal for our kids. We privation each the champion for them," said Hernandez, who has 4 grandchildren. She said a cleanable situation is besides important to her, and was 1 of the reasons she moved to Leamington from Toronto.

On the commercialized warfare with the U.S., Hernandez said Trump is looking retired for his country, and Canada has to bash the same. She has made up her caput arsenic a elector but kept her prime private.

When I asked 2 antithetic customers what they privation Canada’s leaders to prioritize, they some said affordable housing.

“What happened to the two- oregon three-bedroom household location for a fewer 100 1000 dollars, alternatively of the $800,000 monster homes?” said Hillary Leipold. “Yes, marque homes, but marque them disposable to everyone, not conscionable 1 demographic each the time.”

Some U.S. senators pushing to artifact Trump’s tariffs connected Canadian goods

There’s a measure that could present Trump’s commercialized argumentation a symbolic achromatic oculus — connected Canada’s behalf.

It’s Senate Resolution 37, sponsored by Virginia Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine, and it could beryllium the taxable of respective hours’ statement and a ballot implicit the adjacent time oregon two. It would terminate Trump's national-security justification for tariffs connected Canada.

It specifically repudiates the rationale involving fentanyl for the acceptable of Trump tariffs that imposed a 25 per cent levy connected immoderate products and a 10 per cent levy connected vigor products.

Kaine said helium already has enactment from 3 Republicans — Rand Paul, Susan Collins and Thom Tillis — and is adjacent to locking up the indispensable votes to walk it.

If it passes, it would beryllium an embarrassing connection for Trump to transportation into tomorrow's tariff time — a rejection from the Senate, which his enactment controls.

However, substantively, it mightiness mean precise little. The measure volition astir surely not beryllium brought for a ballot successful the House. Also, Trump could veto it anyway.

Plus, this would lone rebuke 1 acceptable of tariffs. The authorities doesn’t notation Trump’s different tariffs — connected steel, aluminum and cars, positive the remainder he’s announcing tomorrow.

Still, Kaine said this could make unit for the president to commencement backing off.

“I [just] travelled astir my authorities of Virginia, including successful Republican parts of the state, and my … constituents are furious astir this. They’re pro-Canada. They’re pro-trade with Canada,” helium said.

“I deliberation if we get a good, coagulated bipartisan ballot successful the Senate, that’s going to beryllium a almighty connection to Donald Trump and his economical advisers: you are playing with fire. Don’t rise taxes connected Americans connected their groceries and gathering supplies astatine a clip erstwhile the system is softening.”

The eve of ‘liberation day’

Tomorrow, Trump’s latest circular of sweeping tariffs is expected to spell into effect — an juncture the U.S. president is calling “liberation day.”

Trump plans to slap a 20 per cent reciprocal tariff connected each countries that person imposed retaliatory duties connected the U.S. successful effect to its commercialized actions. Think of it arsenic tit-for-tat-for-tit.

The U.S. medication mightiness besides present much sectoral-based tariffs that people circumstantial industries — including a taxation connected imported vehicles that would devastate Ontario’s car industry.

After a speech with U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, Ontario Premier Doug Ford indicated past week that those tariffs mightiness beryllium little terrible than initially thought.

But arsenic the satellite has learned galore times over, we won’t truly cognize what’s happening … until thing happens. So we’ll beryllium watching intimately time and, successful the meantime, we expect that immoderate of the national leaders volition tract questions contiguous astir the looming April 2 date.

Conservatives driblet Ontario candidate

Mark McKenzie is retired arsenic the Conservative campaigner successful the southwestern Ontario riding of Windsor-Tecumseh-Lakeshore.

A CTV study this week unearthed a 2022 podcast during which McKenzie expressed enactment for nationalist hangings and jokingly suggested then-prime curate Justin Trudeau should person the decease penalty.

A Conservative enactment spokesperson said the comments were “clearly unacceptable.”

McKenzie, a section metropolis councillor and erstwhile vigor personality, was nary longer listed arsenic a campaigner connected the Conservative’s run website arsenic of this morning.