Poilievre's Diesel Plan Reaches All the Way to the Carbon Tax

Pierre Poilievre advocates removing all diesel production taxes by permanently scrapping two federal measures: the industrial carbon tax and the Clean Fuel Standard.

The scope is the telling part. Both named instruments sit on the production side, so the proposal concerns what fuel makers pay rather than a number set directly at the pump — and whether any relief travels downstream to drivers is a separate argument from whether the taxes come off the books.