Trudeau wants to tax your pickup truck
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Summary
A new green tax on pickup trucks has been proposed by the Truro government in Nova Scotia, Canada, which would affect vehicles like pickup trucks. This is the first part of a two-part series on the proposed new tax.
Transcript
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So tell us about your report. Tell us about this new pickup truck tax the Truro government is
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trying to, I don't know, sneak by or sneak in or what his plans he's scheming about introducing
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this tax. For sure. So I first saw an inkling of this in Blacklock's reporter, and it was around
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a month ago or so. And they mentioned it was a very brief posting that they had on their website.
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They said, hey, there's this advisory panel to the prime minister that is recommending,
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among other things, a levy on pickup trucks. I'm like, that's kind of interesting. And so because
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of my experience on Parliament Hill, I know that these so-called advisory boards often have a lot
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of clout in Ottawa. So I started digging around on the Environment Canada webpage. Sure enough,
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right there in the official report, I'm talking the 2030 emissions reductions plan published by
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the Ministry of Environment with a foreword from Minister Guibo calling it a roadmap was right
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there. Recommendation. It was on page 192. And word for word, it included the recommendation to
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remove the exemption for the green levy so that it also affects vehicles like pickup trucks.