A promise to regulate the price you pay at the pump.
In a virtual call Friday, NDP leader Andrea Horwath stated that both the PC’s and Liberals want to have short term and unsustainable plans of cutting a portion of gas and fuel taxes.
Horwath is continuing the campaign on Zoom after announcing on Thursday that she had tested positive for COVID-19.
The plan, if her party forms government, would see the regulation happen through the Ontario Energy Board (OEB) on a weekly basis, instead of gas companies deciding the price for buyers, which rolls down to consumers filling up at the pumps.
The Ontario PC’s have vowed to bring in a pump reduction of 5.7 cents a litre for six months, beginning July 1st.
Del Duca’s Liberal plan is to reduce prices by approximately 11 cents per litre on the gas and fuel tax (5.7 cent gas tax cut & 5.3 cent fuel tax cut).
Horwath also addressed the ongoing water crisis in the north as well as the growing housing crisis.
She noted it’s been “a game of ping-pong” from recent provincial governments to the federal government, and back again on who’s responsible for improving living conditions for rural communities.
The NDP leader spoke about being able to provide a level living dignity to those living on First Nation’s communities as well as in the larger urban areas of Ontario’s north.
Advance polls are open this weekend with election day set for Thursday June 2nd.
A spokesperson for the provincial PC’s contacted Acadia News and has requested that a statement be included in this article. We have obliged them and shared the unedited statement below.
“Only Doug Ford and the Ontario PCs will get it done and keep costs down by lowering the gas tax by 5.7 cents per litre. Combined with the 4.3 cent per litre cut from when the PC government scrapped the Wynne-Del Duca cap and trade carbon tax, a re-elected PC government is reducing taxes and charges on gas by 10 cents per litre.
Under the Del Duca-Wynne Liberals and Andrea Horwath’s NDP we know that gas taxes are only going to continue to increase. Steven Del Duca supports carbon taxes which drive up the cost of gas. Meanwhile, Andrea Horwath and the NDP are promising to cancel the Ontario PC gas tax cut.
The Del Duca-Wynne Liberals and Andrea Horwath NDP need to clear the air. Do they support carbon taxes or do they support lower gas prices? You cannot be for both.”
*”Del Duca’s Liberal plan is to reduce prices by 11 cents per litre on the gas and fuel tax (five cents respectively)” has been edited for clarity and transparency.*
