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    Carney kündigt Erschwinglichkeitsmaßnahmen an, nachdem er sich bei Nachwahlen die Mehrheit gesichert hat

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    1. cyclinginvancouver on

      >A day after sweeping three byelections in Ontario and Quebec that gave him a majority in the House of Commons, Prime Minister Mark Carney will try to give voters a reason to be reassured with the rising cost of living Tuesday by announcing new affordability measures.

      >According to a senior government source, one of those measures will impact the federal fuel excise tax which now sits at ten cents on a litre of gasoline and four cents on a litre of diesel.

      >Carney is expected to make the announcement at 10 a.m. ET in Ottawa. CBC News will carry the announcement live.

      >The current national average for a litre of gas is just over 176 cents, up from just over 126 cents a little before the United States and Israel launched their attack on Iran and oil stopped flowing through the Strait of Hormuz.

    3. onegunzo on

      Carney will be taking another good CPC idea and implement it? That’s fine. The CPC are hoping the LPC take all their ideas :).

    4. GreaterAttack on

      „Affordability measures“, so everyone thinks it’s about housing and jobs.

      Nope. Just a few cents of gas price manipulation. No car? No care.

    5. gmehra on

      govt needs to cut its own bloated and wasteful spending, everything else is window dressing

    7. TacoTuesdayy87 on

      Hopefully these other measures will help the middle class, and not just be in the form of a one time rebate or gst top up to low income individuals. We’re all struggling and could use the relief at this point.

    9. Tom_Fukkery on

      Another affordability measure that has minimal impact on my life?

      Great!!! Can’t wait.

    10. geardownbigrig on

      So 10c at the pump for like 2 weeks before the price goes back up again… just protect wfh when we see shocks in gas prices and gas problem solved

    11. Lifeisshort555 on

      Central banker trying to make things affordable after turning the population into mortgage slaves feeding banks ridiculous profits.

      Not just that, he got a majority of the vote. God the masses are dumb.

    13. TermZealousideal5376 on

      Affordability measures like….

      1. **Permanently Removing** the industrial carbon tax that inflates costs through our entire supply chain?
      2. Reducing interprovincial trade barriers and pandering to Quebec?
      3. Cutting taxes?
      4. Investigating government corruption and ties with the CCP? Things like Minister Champagne’s wife being the VP of a $90B rail project?
      5. Catalyzing competition in our industries like Telco, Grocery, Banking?

    14. Existing-Bus-1155 on

      What does he mean affordability? Cheaper food cost, cheaper gas , cheaper rent? Why come the middle class gets nothing? We all need a break .

    15. chemicologist on

      He may end up regretting this slim majority. If he kept his minority he would likely be going up against PP again with Trump still in office dominating Canadian politics.

      Now.. Carney’s next general election will very likely be in 2029, post-Trump and probably post-PP. That’s a recipe for wipeout.

    16. Franc000 on

      Not going to be popular here, but most affordability measures that can be taken are going to only benefit the rich in the long term.

      If they give money/tax break to the poor, the will ultimately spend that money for goods and services and the money will trickle up in the pockets of the rich over time. So it’s an injection of government money (our tax money) to the rich, for a temporary boost to consumption. The rich will then use that money to buy more assets like houses and businesses, inflating the price of those assets even more, and concentrating the assets in fewer hands, meaning less competition and higher prices for goods and services. In addition to just increasing demand for goods and services, which means increasing the prices from that point.

      The only affordability measures that they can take that doesn’t end up like that is using the money to buy/create assets (and not sell/give them to their buddies). Then those assets are going to help lower prices for the people. Things like creating public grocery stores for example, and a more immediate concern. Medium term public oil refineries maybe, and public battery plants. Maybe start to own back the buildings that they operates on so that they don’t have rent to pay, reducing operational costs.

      But very unpopular opinion.

    17. ThatCanadianGuy88 on

      10 C a litre on regular gas. Ok I have a 60litre tank. If I fill up 4 times a month thats $12 extra in my pocket. Ok cool.

      People commenting about the price affecting the cost to move goods etc. I am also a business owner. ANd while I can’t speak for anyone else except myself. I set my „fuel cost“ at a certain amount in my costing formulas. When fuel is cheaper I make a tiny bit extra. When it spikes like this (and my FSC surges) I lose a little bit. It all balances out.

      The cost of any changes to that 10 cents a litre won’t affect me and my pricing as a small family business. You think any big company will?

      Then on the other side of the equation what are we giving up funding for in order to make this cut?

      Damned if you do damned if you don’t I suppose. But it looks good on paper.

    19. lorenavedon on

      If you want to make things affordable, run a surplus, pay down the debt and raise interest rates. Anything else just shifts expenses from progressive taxes to regressive inflation. They will print more money, prices will go higher. There is no free lunch. Any government that promises to make things affordable by lowering taxes while at the same time not cutting spending to match those tax cuts is conning you.

    20. Medium_Well on

      Unclear why he needed to wait for a majority. Pure politics. The CPC have been calling for this for weeks and would have supported it right away.

      These Liberals are cretins. Will never do the right thing unless it clearly benefits the Liberal Party.

    21. ifuaguyugetsauced on

      One time rebate incoming! Get ready for chump change and they’ll call it a day! 

    22. peaceandkindred on

      „Affordability measures“ with this party generally means a temporary grocery discount applicable to only some people, and even then it doesnt help much.

      How about instead of spending our money recklessly, you just cut everyones taxes? Just let me have more of my own money. I dont need it to pass through you and then come back to me in much shittier, smaller ways after you have enriched yourselves and paid off your backers, while also being completely incompetent around budgets.

      The real affordability measure we need is to cut taxes and cut the trudeau era spending measures and federal bureaucracy increase. This alone will reduce inflation and shrink the deficit significantly.

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