The consumer carbon tax is gone. Here's the price at the pump in Nova Scotia

CBC News

· Posted: Apr 01, 2025 6:17 AM EDT | Last Updated: 3 minutes ago

Nova Scotians got immoderate alleviation astatine the state pumps Tuesday arsenic the consumer c taxation ended.

The terms of regular gasoline dropped 17.4 cents to 146.5 per litre successful the Halifax area. The terms of diesel dropped 22.1 cents to 161.2 per litres.

The terms astatine the pump varies somewhat depending connected wherever you are successful the province.

As well, the province's HST dropped from 15 per cent to 14 per cent connected Tuesday.

Mark Carney cancelled the carbon tax on his archetypal time arsenic premier curate past month, signing a directive for the substance complaint to beryllium removed connected April 1.

The levy had been added to the merchantability terms of carbon-emitting products by substance type. For gasoline, it was 17.6 cents a litre.

Former premier curate Justin Trudeau archetypal implemented the c pricing strategy successful 2019.

But arsenic Canadians experienced precocious ostentation successful the years following, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's pledge to "axe the tax" gained traction among voters.

Carney had antecedently supported a c pricing scheme, but said during his bid for the Liberal enactment that the existent argumentation had go "too divisive" and promised to termination the policy.