{"id":4703,"date":"2026-04-14T14:55:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T14:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/4703\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T14:55:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T14:55:14","slug":"carney-is-suspending-canadas-fuel-excise-tax-for-nearly-5-months-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/4703\/","title":{"rendered":"Carney is suspending Canada\u2019s fuel excise tax for nearly 5 months &#8211; National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/mark-carney\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Carney<\/a> has announced a temporary suspension of the <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/federal-fuel-excise-tax\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">federal fuel excise tax<\/a> starting next week until Labour Day.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes hours after <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11798684\/federal-byelections-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carney secured a majority government<\/a> through Monday\u2019s three byelections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re also removing the fuel excise tax on aviation fuels. This will remove up to $0.10 per liter on gasoline and $0.04 per liter on diesel fuel,\u201d he said at a news conference in Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCombined with our earlier elimination of the consumer carbon tax, our government will have reduced fuel prices on gas by up to $0.28 per liter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won't miss a trending story.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won&#8217;t miss a trending story.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Carney said the cost of this measure will be $2.4 billion dollars.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Iran war: Rising oil prices put financial pressure on Canadians'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/260331-HEIDI.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1:58<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIran war: Rising oil prices put financial pressure on Canadians\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Canada<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that Canadians are feeling the pressures of everyday expenses right now. We know they need a boost today and a bridge to tomorrow,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The suspension is largely due to the ongoing U.S.-Iran war, with movement of shipments along the Strait of Hormuz have mostly been stalled. It will on April 20 and last until Sept. 7.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative Leader Pierre Poilevre <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11756711\/conservatives-federal-tax-diesel-cut\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">also recently called on the federal government<\/a> to lift the fuel excise tax, alongside \u201cclean fuel standard and GST surcharges from gas and diesel would save consumers about 25 cents a litre.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced a temporary suspension of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,1276,1840,235,3004,200,111,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-4703","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-consumer","10":"tag-cost-of-living","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-federal-fuel-excise-tax","13":"tag-iran","14":"tag-mark-carney","15":"tag-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}