Juno News - Poilievre TORCHES Carney over sky-high gas prices

00:00:00.000 welcome to the fighter with chris sims i am chris sims i'm the alberta director for the

00:00:09.760 canadian taxpayers federation we're always fighting for lower taxes less waste and more

00:00:14.500 accountable government big show for you today because we have big prices at the gas pumps

00:00:20.780 holy smokes uh for folks in ontario i was taking a look there it's over a dollar 80 per liter

00:00:28.180 It's an astonishing jump in just a few weeks' time.

00:00:31.780 Now, of course, the reason why the base price for a barrel of oil has gone up is because we have a war in the Middle East.

00:00:38.260 You choke off a major shipping line like the Strait of Hormuz and you're going to wind up with higher fuel costs.

00:00:45.240 But, and this is a big but, it's such a big but, it could star in a 90s rap video.

00:00:50.220 There's lots that governments can do to save Canadians money.

00:00:53.920 And in particular, Prime Minister Mark Carney, right now, he could suspend all federal fuel taxes and save 25 cents per litre.

00:01:04.140 And it turns out, Conservative leader Pierre Polyev is calling for just that.

00:01:09.220 He just had this press conference. Listen to this.

00:01:11.740 Liberals tax Canadians again and again and again for fuel.

00:01:15.420 There's the 10 cent a litre excise tax.

00:01:18.100 Then there's the 7 cent a litre fuel standard tax.

00:01:21.820 Then there is the GST, which actually collects more money for the government the more gas prices go up.

00:01:28.080 And it is a tax not only on the fuel, but on the other taxes, a tax on a tax on a tax on a tax.

00:01:35.560 Mark Carney did not get rid of the carbon tax. He renamed it.

00:01:39.280 He called it the fuel standard.

00:01:41.680 And this week he told Canadians that he is closely following the rising gas prices.

00:01:48.900 Mr. Carney, no more following.

00:01:51.180 It's time to lead.

00:01:52.900 Lead for affordable gas, groceries, and homes.

00:01:57.600 That's why today I'm calling on the government to suspend all fuel taxes for the rest of the year.

00:02:04.520 A policy that would save $0.25 a litre, about $20 a fill-up, and $1,200 for the average family of four between now and the end of the year.

00:02:17.300 Outstanding. We're very happy to hear Pierre Polyev calling for a suspension of these fuel

00:02:22.180 taxes. And he's right. If you do the math, that's going to save around $20 when you're filling up

00:02:29.220 a family minivan. More if you're filling up, say, a standard pickup truck. And way more,

00:02:35.400 of course, for truckers who are using diesel. And of course, everything around us. Okay,

00:02:42.420 look around the room you're in right now. Look around the car you're driving. Look around the

00:02:47.500 neighborhood you're walking. Everything that we use, everything that we eat is brought to us on

00:02:54.840 trucks. And those trucks use diesel. When we have a high price for diesel combined with high taxes

00:03:03.180 for diesel, things get unaffordable real fast. So it's excellent to see the leader of the

00:03:10.100 Conservatives, the leader of the opposition, calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney to fully

00:03:14.480 suspend fuel taxes for the balance of the year. He was asked by the parliamentary press gallery

00:03:20.480 reporters that were gathered there. I'm pretty sure that that gas station is in right downtown

00:03:25.640 Ottawa. In fact, I'm pretty sure it was at Bank and Gladstone, just a few blocks from Parliament

00:03:30.660 Hill. And I could hear press gallery reporters asking him questions of how much will this cost?

00:03:36.100 well let's flip that around because it's taxpayers money so it would save taxpayers just over five

00:03:44.540 billion dollars if they suspended all of these fuel tax for the balance of the calendar year

00:03:50.720 that's an outstanding announcement and it would really help take the sting out of those fuel

00:03:56.340 prices because across Canada right we're seeing these huge increases at the pump we're seeing

00:04:03.100 these huge increases for both gasoline and diesel, and it's costing people a ton of money.

00:04:08.560 What kind of taxes are we talking about? Well, there's like the federal excise tax. There is

00:04:13.740 the industrial carbon tax, which is a hidden version of the carbon tax. There's the so-called

00:04:19.960 low carbon fuel standard, which adds about seven extra cents per liter. And then of course,

00:04:26.260 there's the GST that's added after all of those taxes. In fact, it becomes a tax on a tax.

00:04:33.100 It winds up costing Canadians millions and millions and millions of dollars every year.

00:04:38.920 Just the tax on tax, just at the fuel pumps.

00:04:43.100 So now is the time definitely for governments across Canada to provide fuel tax relief.

00:04:49.820 Good on PolyEvra making that announcement there federally.

00:04:53.620 But provincially, I'm going to call people out here too.

00:04:57.200 Provincially, premiers can do a lot here as well.

00:05:00.140 Okay. From coast to coast, premiers across Canada can get rid of their provincial fuel taxes. That includes things like a sales tax in some jurisdictions, a provincial fuel tax in others. In British Columbia's case, they still have their own version of carbon taxes. In Quebec's case, also the French version of British Columbia, they also have their version of carbon taxes.

00:05:25.220 So there are governments, including here in Alberta, where I live, there are governments

00:05:30.440 that can reduce fuel taxes right now. In fact, here in Alberta, we actually have a mechanism

00:05:37.300 that's baked into our legislation where if a barrel of oil goes over $90 per barrel for a

00:05:44.220 balance of 20 days, we're supposed to have 13 cents per liter gone right off the pumps for

00:05:51.740 gasoline and diesel, but it's always measured by quarter. So four times a year, they go in and

00:05:58.860 they measure the fuel price, and then they're supposed to suspend or reduce the fuel tax here

00:06:05.240 in Alberta. But we just missed the recent quarterly measurement. So technically, we would all have to

00:06:12.140 wait until July, July, until we finally get some fuel tax relief. That's not good enough. We need

00:06:18.380 to see provincial leaders and the federal leader take action now to save Canadians money at the

00:06:24.460 pumps. Lots of other world governments are doing this. Okay. Look around the planet. Okay. You

00:06:29.920 increase the price of a barrel of oil costs for everybody around the planet goes up. And we are

00:06:34.360 seeing other global leaders taking a stand and reducing their fuel taxes. So it is high time

00:06:42.760 for our political leaders here in Canada to tackle high gas prices.

00:06:49.560 How do we actually get this done? Let's find out. Joining me now is, of course, Dan McTague. He is

00:06:56.060 with Canadians for Affordable Energy. Dan, you have been an analyst in this arena for literally

00:07:02.000 decades now. I had to get you back on the show because, my gosh, I was just looking over Pierre

00:07:07.600 poly of shoulder during that press conference he had and gas is over a buck 80 per liter in Ontario

00:07:13.700 that is astonishing so for folks who don't follow you know the price of a barrel of oil and all the

00:07:20.380 global trade and stuff for energy why is the price of gasoline and diesel through the roof the last

00:07:27.180 few weeks well it's obviously the product uh 20 of the world's production of oil has been uh put

00:07:33.740 offline. And although a lot of ships left before the attack took place, those ships are returning

00:07:40.460 to the same area, which is responsible for about 20% of the world's crude and even more

00:07:45.020 of things like natural gas liquids, where the world gets about 40% to 50%.

00:07:49.320 Things like diesel, things like gasoline and other petroleum products might be as high as

00:07:56.160 28% to 30%. And so the fact that they're left, they've gone, they've done the delivery,

00:08:00.960 They're making their way back and there's no chance of offloading more product means that we're heading towards a supply crunch.

00:08:09.620 And that's why the longer the war goes on, Trump's comments this week, last evening in the address suggested three to four more weeks.

00:08:17.720 He said this before. It looks like this is going to continue going on forever and ever.

00:08:22.220 And of course, here's the real kicker. It's now affecting the West Texas Intermediate price.

00:08:28.740 We've been pretty much insulated on the North American continent

00:08:31.840 because this is a problem over there with Brent and other oils.

00:08:34.980 But now, given that there's going to be a supply crunch,

00:08:37.380 they're going to be coming to North American shores

00:08:39.400 and showing up in the U.S. Gulf Coast and picking up oil if they can,

00:08:42.620 and they're willing to pay a higher price for it.

00:08:44.320 So oil prices are going up, diesel prices are going up,

00:08:47.160 especially diesel, up $0.75 a litre since this began,

00:08:51.000 and gasoline up $0.40, $0.42 across the country.

00:08:54.120 You're paying $2.10 in Vancouver because they love taxes and they vote for it.

00:08:58.080 In places like Toronto, yeah, they like taxes too.

00:09:01.460 And we all in Quebec and the Maritimes and the 180s, 190 range.

00:09:05.680 And by the way, Chris, the biggest tragedy for Canada,

00:09:09.100 if anybody thought net zero and green policies were a smart idea,

00:09:12.720 look at the value of the Canadian dollar.

00:09:14.140 And why is that important for gas prices?

00:09:16.160 139 pennies to buy a US dollar means all of our commodities,

00:09:19.400 our purchase power has been massively reduced.

00:09:21.660 The last time we've had energy crises or energy issues like this,

00:09:25.980 The Canadian dollar always rose to the challenge, almost met parity with the United States, with the U.S. dollar.

00:09:31.400 It's 40 cents additional for every liter of gasoline.

00:09:35.980 So elbows up, vote for your net zero, worry about, you know, a molecule somehow affecting the weather.

00:09:43.080 By the way, check outside today, it's pretty damn cold out here.

00:09:45.720 But at the same time, if you think that's a real smart idea and you voted for it four times since 2015,

00:09:51.520 well, hey, 2015 anymore, folks, and you're paying for it because you voted for it.

00:09:55.980 Can you slow that down for us and explain? Because Pierre Polyev mentioned it during his presser today, just a few minutes ago in Ottawa. And he said, basically to paraphrase, if we had had our ducks in a row and not been dumb and actually had all of our oil and gas going and we're using our natural resources to the best of our ability, that our dollar would be at par or at least close to it by now.

00:10:19.660 explain for our viewers and listeners why does that matter why would the price of a barrel of

00:10:25.780 oil if we were actually full steam ahead why would that bring our dollar up close to par

00:10:31.360 well our dollar is pegged based on the u.s dollar all of our commodities whether we make them here

00:10:37.940 or we buy them from elsewhere it usually follows a particular pattern it follows a particular

00:10:43.280 currency. And in this case, the U.S. dollar is the almighty dollar. And in the past,

00:10:49.420 we've had an energy crisis. Countries that have energy usually benefit, and they still do,

00:10:54.220 except Canada. Because we've decided in this country that there's no business case for oil

00:10:58.840 and gas, and we've imposed massive restrictions on their ability to be approved, much less permitted,

00:11:05.140 much less flow. We are now reaping a very bitter harvest. It is a self-inflicted wound. The same

00:11:12.640 way that Trump has done some things that make us upset with him the reality is it's Donald Trump's

00:11:17.780 policies that have really underscored and highlighted the frivolity of Canadian policy

00:11:23.780 over the past 10 years say yeah we don't care about our resources we'll just go around and

00:11:27.840 maybe pretend that we can have pixie dust or some kind of other element that we should be pursuing

00:11:33.920 but the biggest problem we have and it's undeniable is that when you block pipelines or you tell a

00:11:39.020 company like Kinder Morgan, as we did many years ago, to get lost and get public money to build

00:11:44.320 a pipeline that is desperately needed, you send a message to the rest of the world that Canada is

00:11:48.760 not open for business, they're not interested in trade, and therefore no one wants to buy Canadian

00:11:53.240 assets. And as a result of that, our Canadian dollar used to be always in the vicinity,

00:11:59.000 especially during the energy crisis, of the U.S. dollar. And I see 2012 when we took out Muammar

00:12:03.820 Gaddafi, there was a massive price. The Canadian dollar achieved parity with the U.S. dollar.

00:12:09.020 It takes 139.3 Canadian pennies to buy a U.S. dollar.

00:12:14.340 That means that you and I are purchase power.

00:12:16.660 We lose 40 cents on every liter of gasoline.

00:12:19.460 Imagine what it's doing with the cost of food, the cost of forestry, the cost of mining.

00:12:23.580 We are losing a battle because we've embraced the ideology, the green, woke, net zero narrative

00:12:30.420 that has basically left us all with net zero in our pockets.

00:12:34.960 I wanted to get, I'll give an example in a second, but just to your point.

00:12:39.020 on how this is hindering us economically and investment-wise.

00:12:43.280 We just recently saw a major Canadian oil and gas company

00:12:47.180 hit pause on an $8 billion, with a B,

00:12:50.960 oil sands mining project.

00:12:52.820 For people who don't understand, oil sands is mining.

00:12:56.200 It's not your traditional pump jack going on.

00:12:58.980 It's mining.

00:12:59.820 It's basically cleaning up

00:13:01.140 the world's biggest natural oil spill.

00:13:03.260 They're digging up the sand.

00:13:04.860 They're separating out the oil and the bitumen.

00:13:06.860 They're putting clean sand back into the earth.

00:13:08.980 in northern alberta that's why it's called mining they hit pause on that dan and i waited for it

00:13:15.380 and there the other shoe dropped they listed carbon taxes and uncertainty surrounding things

00:13:21.140 like our energy policies and our natural resources policies for the reason why they hit pause

00:13:26.660 here in alberta that's what we're talking about right we are and uh so net zero includes uh

00:13:32.580 emissions caps it includes uh tanker bans it includes uh you know carbon taxes not one

00:13:39.380 which we had which that we got rid of but we replaced it very quickly with the clean fuel

00:13:43.460 standard which you and i chris have been talking about for the years uh that's already seven eight

00:13:46.980 cents a liter you've proven that here today's taxpayers federation along with the one we once

00:13:52.180 had a parliamentary budget officer that stood up for their role their responsibility before being

00:13:57.060 being shown the door by liberals who just didn't like the answer. And of course, we have the OBPS,

00:14:02.700 which just went up there, the output-based industrial pricing system, which is the

00:14:07.120 industrial carbon tax. I mean, we are carbon taxed to death, and we are the only country in the world

00:14:11.520 that pretends to believe that we can be virtuous by offering oil, the only country in the world

00:14:16.440 with an oil prowess, with oil background that is going to say that the world should only have

00:14:22.920 decarbonized oil. We're the only country stupid enough to do this. And as a result, the world's 1.00

00:14:26.980 fine you don't want to sell oil we're not buying any more of your products therefore we're not

00:14:30.100 buying canadian dollars so what does it mean tens of billions of dollars in revenue for the federal

00:14:34.420 provincial government so the trendy folks the municipal provincial and federal governments as

00:14:38.580 civil servants and those who rely on social programs because they're worried about this

00:14:42.660 issue or that issue seem to have no qualms with taxing the living daylight set of things

00:14:46.900 that make things very very affordable in this country but we're also denying ourselves the

00:14:50.580 revenue to maintain our social programs and what's happened now with this energy crisis

00:14:55.540 If I see people like Eric Nuhal, who are experts in this field, saying this is the worst energy 0.99

00:15:00.060 crisis we have ever faced, it's been made a lot worse by Canadians who decided it was more 1.00

00:15:05.240 important to put your elbows up than to put your brain in gear. I'm going to get to the taxes in 1.00

00:15:09.840 just a second. And Dan, I know you're in high demand right now, so I won't take up any more

00:15:13.780 of your time. But very quickly, I wanted to give a metaphor here. So what you're talking about with

00:15:18.160 energy, right? It's so important for us to have abundant, available, affordable energy, because

00:15:23.280 that's how things move. That's how we heat our homes. That's how we grow our food. It makes

00:15:27.160 everything go. If you tax and increase the price of energy, you are taxing and increasing the price

00:15:33.840 of people living their lives. And when we're not ready right at the starting gun, okay, with full

00:15:39.600 capacity for our pipelines, full capacity to use our natural resources, we're left behind in the

00:15:44.900 race. I would describe it like this. It's really important to keep your circulation good, right?

00:15:49.660 to make sure your legs and your knees and your hips are all working good because you might need

00:15:53.660 to run at any moment. But what Canada has done the last 10 years or so is it's like we've

00:15:59.780 purposefully cut off circulation to our leg. And now all of a sudden the starting gun has gone off

00:16:05.340 and our legs asleep. We can't run. We can't keep up with, for example, the United States. Is that

00:16:10.980 a fair analogy? Well, at the same time, taking both hands, putting it around your neck and choking

00:16:15.800 yourself because we've done the manufacturing sector as well and now we all we can do is oh 1.00

00:16:19.800 we'll bring in some chinese vehicles that's wonderful made by uyghurs and bring things in 1.00

00:16:24.920 that are basically going to be of no use and a little uh little help to the uh declining decline

00:16:30.360 in the manufacturing sector my colleague catherine swift can catherine swift can speak much more

00:16:35.160 eloquently to that but we have done what is amounts to a form of self-immolation we've

00:16:41.880 vandalize our own home we've despoiled our own cattle dogs don't even do that and yet canadians

00:16:48.280 have i was at a conference two days ago where they were talking about the food insecurity crisis i

00:16:52.680 turned around said well are any of you aware just how much tax your government and you as a left

00:16:57.800 have imposed on your own ability to make food in this country much less supply manager which is

00:17:02.920 another issue altogether you can't get away from the fact that people have chosen to believe certain

00:17:08.600 things while completely ignoring another. But everyone is now about to agree that the way we

00:17:13.180 have gone over the past 10 years has been a direct road to economic perdition of the likes of which

00:17:18.360 we are now going to get out of because we've dumped on the most important, most valuable

00:17:22.560 golden goose, and that's the oil and gas sector. And with it, we've taken the same philosophy and

00:17:27.660 pretty much taken a buzzsaw to our manufacturing sector, our forestry sector, our mining sector.

00:17:32.860 Take your pick. There aren't very many good things happening right now and has a lot to do with

00:17:36.680 government policies and people yet people there they are i want to vote for more of this stuff 0.99

00:17:40.280 well fine you think this is 1930s and this we have these five-year you know marxist plans out

00:17:45.580 of the stalinist government in the soviet union that's fine but uh canadians are gonna have to

00:17:51.140 accept that they have voted for and and uh you know vigorously defended the idea that uh having

00:17:58.280 uh diminished quality of life is the way to go and i cannot think of a generation any generation

00:18:04.520 since our inception as a country that ever thought that that was a very smart policy

00:18:08.180 meanwhile governments are taking about half of what we earn about half imagine that folks picture

00:18:13.580 what lands in your bank account every two weeks almost double the amount what could you do with

00:18:18.660 that money instead but instead governments like the ones dan and i are talking about are taxing

00:18:23.580 the hell out of you while choking off our lifeblood i want to get to taxes right now real

00:18:27.680 quick before you have to go down um at the taxpayers federation we've been calling on

00:18:32.160 various levels of government to axe taxes on fuel, gasoline and diesel, because it makes life

00:18:37.240 unaffordable. Axe those taxes. We've always been pushing for that. We always do our gas tax honesty

00:18:42.420 report every year, showing how much you're getting screwed. We just saw the Conservative leader,

00:18:47.280 Pierre Polyev, take a bold stand and say, hey, suspend all federal taxes right up until the end

00:18:53.760 of the calendar year, saving taxpayers more than $5 billion. He just did a presser in Ottawa.

00:18:59.740 Where are you on this?

00:19:01.080 How much could we actually save?

00:19:03.200 How should we tackle this as far as cutting taxes on our fuels?

00:19:07.540 Well, it's clear something has to be done in the absence of the government having taken the right position in terms of fighting to have a stronger Canadian dollar.

00:19:15.400 Those taxes, so 40 cents on a liter of gasoline.

00:19:17.740 Think about it, that 139 I was referring to as you net many pennies to buy U.S. dollar amounts to a massive tax.

00:19:23.660 So if you're not going to do that, you've lost the opportunity to recover that.

00:19:28.200 at least try to find it from somewhere else. But even before we get to the issue of all the other

00:19:32.080 taxes that federal and provincial governments are taking, even municipal in some cases of Montreal

00:19:36.060 and Victoria and Vancouver, why are we looking at the fact that the federal government is taking

00:19:41.240 5% of the higher price? It has no business doing that. It knows it's morally wrong, it's ethically

00:19:47.960 wrong, it's politically wrong, and it's economic stupidity. Because the more you tax people in a 1.00

00:19:53.320 time of difficulty, the less economic vitality you're going to have. So on the issue of taxation

00:19:58.180 I think we have to take a whole scattergun approach, which is basically, you know, lob the grenade into the policymakers laps and let the let the let the outcome be what it's going to have to be, because the way the country is going right now is in unmistakable decline made no better by a federal government that, you know, disincentivizes people from creation, from getting investments in this country, creating conditions by which no one is prepared to work.

00:20:24.440 think of the MOU in the pipeline. The MOU is DOA. We know that. But it's DOA because nobody in their

00:20:29.880 right mind, including Canadian companies, are prepared to get involved in investing in Canada

00:20:33.420 and building a better future because of the economic prohibitions that have been placed,

00:20:40.860 roadblocks that have been placed by the left. The Greens, that is the NDP, the Bloc, and the

00:20:45.940 Liberals have basically put Canada on a collision course to an inevitable crash. And I think the

00:20:51.820 only way to get out of it is to say we need to do something about taxation. We also need to deal

00:20:57.800 with the issue of the other tax, which is the carbon, the clean fuel standard, the carbon taxes

00:21:04.220 that are there, as well as the fact that the Canadian economy is not attracting investments.

00:21:09.060 So the simple way, in my view, get the provincial governments, Ontario, Quebec, Eastern Canada,

00:21:15.280 and the federal government to give back the 13, 14 and 15 percent fleecing as they are taking

00:21:21.620 advantage of the war, a terrible war in Iraq and the price consequence that is affecting every

00:21:27.140 Canadian. I don't care if you drive a vehicle or not, you're getting smacked in the side of the

00:21:30.640 head. So you can pretend you're driving your little EV around or your little four sliced

00:21:34.760 toaster on wheels or golf cart, or you can say, I don't, I don't drive, therefore I don't need to

00:21:39.240 worry. You're damn right. You have to worry. The government's policies in this case have an

00:21:43.620 extraordinarily detrimental taxation policy and green policies combined have made a very poisonous 0.50

00:21:49.680 elixir for the future of this country what you're talking about there with the five percent of

00:21:54.900 course is the sales tax the gst the federal sales tax and can you just i know you have to go and i

00:22:00.540 know that this war in iran is increasing the price all over the place there's a lot of uncertainty

00:22:04.780 but before you have to go can you explain why it is that they're able to take more using that five

00:22:10.940 percent sales tax and how it actually results as a tax on attack yes so if I'm in Saskatchewan and

00:22:15.960 you know diesel selling for $1.35 $1.40 back in February it's now $1.92 to $2 a liter that's a

00:22:25.680 70 cent a liter increase well guess who takes five percent of that 70 cents that's the federal

00:22:30.880 government so if I'm looking at the number of liters sold in Canada over two over 200 million

00:22:37.000 a day, and I'm adding 5% plus in Eastern Canada, half of the use, at 8% and 9% and 7%, that's

00:22:46.420 in both cases, each government winding up with two, three million bucks a day each.

00:22:52.060 Multiply that by the 30 days since the war has begun, and you can see why they probably

00:22:56.120 collected, or will by this time next week, have collected a quarter billion dollars from

00:23:00.640 taxpayers and from Canadians and from drivers who are hard-pressed because they have imposed

00:23:06.680 a 13 percent uh you know uh restriction uh on and and added to the price by uh by by collecting in

00:23:14.360 a time in which people are are really suffering as a result of the rise in prices that's the

00:23:19.000 totality of what they've done paul martin's government to john kretzen's government knew

00:23:23.480 that was a problem in 2000 that's why they went along with dan mctegg's proposal to have that 0.95

00:23:27.320 rebated and it was i don't necessarily think the gsd rebate is the way to go about it but damn it

00:23:32.360 Take off that 5%, Mr. Kearney, Mr. Ford, Mr. Legault, and the premiers of the Maritimes. 0.74

00:23:40.560 Take the 8% that you have on the rise, on the increased cost.

00:23:44.780 It is a windfall that does not belong to you.

00:23:46.960 You never budgeted for it.

00:23:48.540 Stop ripping Canadians off.

00:23:50.580 And to be clear, Paul Martin did do that, correct?

00:23:53.380 He did do that, yeah.

00:23:54.460 In 2000, it was based on the recommendation I'd made in 1998, the government found a way to get the GST back to Canadians,

00:24:00.220 especially in an environment of higher prices.

00:24:02.360 In essence, governments in eastern Canada and the federal government are taking advantage of this tragedy, this higher price, by adding their own 5% or 8%.

00:24:11.500 And that, to me, is immoral, it's wrong, it's unethical, and certainly is, by my standard, illiberal. 0.80

00:24:18.800 Dan McTague, of course, he was a long-time liberal member of Parliament back when, frankly, I remember when Prime Minister Paul Martin said that damn clock, and he was scared of the debt, and he actually did stuff that made fiscal sense.

00:24:32.840 Dan, thank you so much for fighting for Canadians and fighting for affordable energy.

00:24:37.860 Thank you so much for joining us.

00:24:39.340 Chris, keep doing what you're doing at the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

00:24:42.120 We need more of you.

00:24:43.420 We will.

00:24:44.260 Thank you so much.

00:24:44.980 Once again, that is Dan McTague.

00:24:46.600 He is the head for Canadians for Affordable Energy.

00:24:50.120 If you have not checked out their website yet, go do that.

00:24:53.740 There is this entire ecosystem of people who are fighting for taxpayers and they want less waste.

00:25:00.560 They want affordable energy.

00:25:02.360 and they want accountable government, Canadians for Affordable Energy is a big part of that

00:25:08.680 ecosystem. And they support things like independent news media, like right here at Juno News. So if

00:25:15.460 you have not yet checked out Canadians for Affordable Energy, go do that right now. Dan

00:25:20.800 and I go way back. For decades, I used to be able to book him for talk radio because he was the gas 1.00

00:25:26.380 buddy guy. He was the gas wizard. He was the one that was always able to predict and increase your

00:25:32.320 decrease in gas station prices to the leader at the pump based on regions. Why? Because he watches

00:25:39.400 these markets and he knows how all of this works and he understands how government works. So folks,

00:25:44.740 I hope that was educational. That's so upsetting. I think he said that the price of diesel,

00:25:51.320 like the actual cost price of diesel has gone up around 70 cents a liter. To give you an idea of

00:25:58.380 how much more money that is, a trucker who's driving a big rig, filling up his double tanks

00:26:05.860 of diesel, his cylinders, he's spending around $700 more. Just the quick math. If that's how

00:26:17.340 much the price of diesel has gone up per liter, that's about $700 more per fill up. And now you

00:26:25.940 bad taxes on top of that, including carbon taxes and including the sales taxes that Dan just talked

00:26:32.140 about, it's no wonder Canadians are fighting to afford the basics right now. And frankly,

00:26:38.480 we need to see relief at the pumps. It means that every level of government in Canada needs to do

00:26:45.120 the right thing and axe these taxes at the fuel pumps. Folks, thank you so much for watching.

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Juno News - April 06, 2026

Poilievre TORCHES Carney over sky-high gas prices

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