Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault called the column “disinformation” and “fearmongering” on Twitter and said the fee on trucks doesn’t exist.
Here’s why I think you should still keep an eye on this issue. This is exactly the sort of tax Guilbeault supported in the past and governments don’t include advice they don’t like or agree with in reports that they publish.
They included this recommendation exactly because the minister does agree with it and even submitted it as a budget proposal before he entered politics. In 2017 the environmental group Equiterre, which Minister Guilbeault was still employed by and was still the chief spokesman for at the time, called for the green levy to be expanded in much the same way this new report does.
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