Poilievre pushes motion for PM Carney, Liberals to scrap all federal gas taxes in 2026 | FULL

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After a two-week break, Canada's Parliament resumed this week. And on Tuesday, Prime Minister Mark Carney faced pressing questions from Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre and his Conservative shadow cabinet. The focus from Poilievre? Escalated calls for the Liberals to scrap all additional federal taxes on gas and diesel for the remainder of the year, including the GST. This comes after the Tories presented a motion in the House of Commons that would permanently end the clean fuel standard. Poilievre’s affordability push comes after the Carney government instituted a temporary suspension of the federal fuel excise tax last month, amid sky-high gas prices brought by the conflict in the Middle East and resulting energy supply shortages. During question period, Poilievre argued that gas prices are more than 40 cents higher than they were in 2014, when former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper was in power, and a global energy crisis also pushed the price of oil to US$100 per ba

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