Canada election: With the consumer carbon tax officially dead, affordability back in campaign spotlight

Consumer c taxation goes gentle into that bully night

Bonjour! This is Jenna, your greeting unrecorded leafage writer.

The user c taxation is officially dead. The ultra-divisive substance charge, archetypal imposed connected Canadian consumers successful 2019, met its destiny past period erstwhile Mark Carney — connected his archetypal time arsenic premier curate — signed a directive for it to beryllium removed connected April 1.

That came agelong aft Pierre Poilievre made the pledge to “axe the tax” a centrepiece of the Conservative platform, and utilized it arsenic a communal enactment of onslaught against the Liberals.

My workfellow Abby Hughes has a large communicative this greeting astir what the extremity of the c taxation means for your wallet. You tin work it here.

I’m a integer shaper based successful Toronto, and I’ll beryllium curating your unrecorded updates acquisition this morning.

We’ll beryllium bringing you each the latest developments and investigation arsenic Day 10 of Canada’s 45th national predetermination run gets underway.