The Trudeau government is planning to hit Canadians with a big new tax on their trucks and sport
utility vehicles.
Not cars. Just Trucks. It seems discriminatory, and I'd venture to say, politically discriminatory: I'd bet that Trudeau's pollsters determined that truck drivers are less likely to vote for him, and being a petty child, he is creating a punitive policy. The urban vote is stronger, for Trudeau, than the rural vote, and rural voters make up a larger percentage of the truck drivers.
The proposed tax would cost an extra $1,000 on a Ford F-150, and a Ram 3500 heavy-duty pickup truck would get hit with a $4,000 tax. ...
The recommendation to whack trucks with a big tax is buried deep in a new 271-page report from the Ministry of the Environment that was posted on the Government of Canada website March 31, 2022. ...
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The tax bill would range from $1,000 for light-duty pickups to $4,000 for the super-duty trucks that tow horse trailers and construction equipment.
These pickups are also the most popular vehicles in Canada. ...
If they move ahead with this change, what’s stopping the Trudeau government from targeting the smaller Chevy Blazers and Ford Explorers next time around? A stroke of the pen could impose the tax on dozens of other vehicles.
And how long will it take for Ottawa to hike the taxes on the sale of used SUVs and trucks while they’re at it? The federal and provincial governments already hit poorer people with sales taxes when they buy used vehicles, no matter how many times the car has been bought and sold. ...
We don’t know exactly when Trudeau’s new truck tax will be implemented, but based on his minister’s pedal-to-the-metal approach, it could be here tomorrow. ...
— Kris Sims is the B.C. Director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation
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