April Fools? Canadians to get hit with multiple tax hikes as Trudeau gets another raise
While Canadians are going to be hit with tax hikes on carbon and alcohol, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is slated to get a salary increase of $10,200.
(LifeSiteNews) –– Despite rising inflation and higher interest rates, Canadians will be hit with a barrage of new federal taxes come April 1, which the Canadian Taxpayer Federation (CTF) has blasted as “undemocratic.”
Starting tomorrow, Canadians will be hit with an increase to the carbon tax, which was first imposed on Canadians by the federal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in 2019, as well as in increase to alcohol taxes.
The federal carbon tax will go up to 14 cents per liter of gasoline and to 12 cents per cubic meter of natural gas.
As most Canadians heat their homes with natural gas, the hike means half of one’s bill will now be from the carbon tax.
It is estimated that the carbon tax increase will cost the average household between $402 and $847 in 2023, even after government rebates.
Franco Terrazzano, federal director of the CTF, said the rising carbon tax is the “fourth time Trudeau has increased his carbon tax since COVID-19 touched down.”
Terrazzano said Canadians will have a “hangover in the new year” from Trudeau’s new tax hikes.
“Canadians can’t afford gas or groceries and the government is making things worse by hiking taxes,” Terrazzano said recently.
Of note is that while many countries such as the United Kingdom, and more than half of G7 and G20 countries, cut federal fuel taxes due to high inflation, the Trudeau government has only sought to double down.
According to the CTF, they have identified at least 51 national governments which cut taxes to help people deal with inflation.
Trudeau’s federal carbon tax is imposed on all Canadian provinces, however, Alberta has fought back the carbon tax by axing its own provincial fuel tax of 13 cents per litre, for the time being.