April Fool's Day meant the joke was on Canadian taxpayers

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• By Tamara Ugolini

PETITION: Stop The Pay Hike

Canadian Members of Parliament will get a pay raise on April 1st, which is the same day that the government will hike the Carbon Tax. Sign our petition calling on Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland to Stop The Pay Hike!

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Members of Parliament gave themselves an $8500 annual raise while Canadians had even more money picked from their pockets, courtesy of another carbon tax hike. 

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau jacked the tax from $65 to $80 per tonne, worsening Canada's inflationary crisis and escalating the cost of living.

Trudeau has lost Canadians on the carbon tax.

Canadians don’t support and can’t afford his carbon tax hikes.

But Trudeau isn’t listening to the people. He’s about to make your life more expensive with another carbon tax hike. pic.twitter.com/26oL96JYm6

— Franco Terrazzano (@franco_nomics) March 29, 2024

Canadians across the country took to the streets from coast-to-coast to protest the tax hike and make their voices heard.

🇨🇦 It’s Carbon Tax Hike Day in Canada!

The Trudeau government’s carbon tax is costing us more to drive, feed our families & heat our homes! pic.twitter.com/SQ0V1zSpU3

— Kris Sims (@kris_sims) April 1, 2024

They're begging for reprieve and relief.

Some video of the staging area for the carbon tax protest on the Alberta Saskatchewan border in Lloydminster. Straddles both sides of Highway 16. Some guys are blaring Metallica in the distance. Lol. Very prairie.

For more go to https://t.co/GAdShrDDxl pic.twitter.com/70nhO4vCRO

— Sheila Gunn Reid (@SheilaGunnReid) April 1, 2024

But it doesn't seem Trudeau is listening, or even cares.

“Conservative premiers across this country are misleading Canadians, are not telling the truth.”

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is asked if he would be willing to sit down with premiers who are calling on the feds to pause the carbon tax increase. pic.twitter.com/EzYI5j6HxK

— True North (@TrueNorthCentre) March 27, 2024

GUEST: Kris Sims, Alberta Director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, on the Liberal carbon tax 'disinformation'