Lower Prices at the Pumps

4 June 2026

Every single day, across our community and right across Canada, families are being stretched to their absolute breaking point. The rising cost of living is a painful reality being felt directly at the gas pumps. Hardworking families are pulling up to gas stations and wincing as they watch the digital dials soar upward rapidly, draining their hard-earned take-home pay just so they can drive to work, drop their children off at recreational facilities, or run basic errands. Life has simply become unaffordable, and it is getting significantly worse.

The primary driver of these astronomical prices is not a mystery, it is the sheer weight of government taxation. When you look closely at what you are paying for at the pump, a massive portion of the cost per litre is comprised of layers upon layers of taxes. We have the federal excise tax, the regular GST, the clean fuel standard, and, on top of all that, a punishing federal industrial carbon tax that is driving up the cost of energy production. This is a system of tax-on-tax compounding that punishes everyday people. Canadians are being gouged by their own government every single time they fill up their vehicles.

To understand just how many taxes are now on the fuel you buy, we only need to look at the historical data. In 2014, global crude oil prices were as high or higher than they are today, yet gas prices at Canadian pumps were approximately 45 cents lower per litre. This data clearly demonstrates that today’s record-high retail prices are not merely the result of only global energy supply chains or international pressures. The domestic price gap is driven by domestic policy decisions. New regulatory burdens and escalating taxes implemented over the last decade are driving fuel costs higher.

My Conservative colleagues and I have been clear: Canadians need immediate, substantial relief, not the weak, temporary half-measures this government has put forward. We are pushing the government to completely axe all federal taxes on fuel for the entire year. This would equal approximately 25 cents in savings per litre. Minor government tweaks won’t fix the deep financial pain families are experiencing. Suspending these taxes until the end of the year would give household budgets real breathing room.

Fuel costs being high, increases the cost of absolutely everything in our economy. Every single product on a store shelf got there because a truck, train, plane, or ship moved it. When diesel and gasoline prices skyrocket, transportation companies are forced to pass those expenses down the supply chain. This means higher costs for manufacturing, higher costs for building materials, and, most critically, higher costs for food. Those high costs get passed down to the end consumer. The price of fuel drives grocery inflation. We cannot afford more of it at a time when Canada has the worst grocery inflation among all G7 countries.

Prime Minister Mark Carney purports to be an economist. Canadians never expected that he would continue the failed economic policies of his predecessor Justin Trudeau. In fact, in Carney’s first year, his Liberal Government has produced the worst annual deficit of any Canadian Government in the history of our country, outside of COVID. He and his government are simply out of touch with the harsh realities facing families in Aurora and Richmond Hill.

You deserve a government that respects the value of your hard-earned dollars. The current high fuel tax approach is completely unsustainable, especially now that April’s inflation rate has hit a two-year high. This isn’t an accident, it is a direct result of increasing taxes over the last decade that has made everything more expensive. If we continue down this path of relentless taxation, the cost of everything will keep climbing at a time when families are already very stretched. Canadians cannot afford any more.

As your Member of Parliament, you, your families and your businesses are my number one priority. I will continue to advocate for policies that are sensible and that can provide real relief for the residents of our community.