1 week Ago By Joe Warmington
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight! That’s how many vehicles – mostly large black SUVs with tinted windows – were in Prime Minister Mark Carney’s entourage in Hamilton on Thursday. That doesn’t include Carney’s bus, which is all decked out in Liberal red and white, or the media bus that left a few minutes earlier. So, two buses and eight support vehicles – one in front of the pack and seven in the rear – that’s 10 gas guzzlers to move the Liberal Leader’s campaign around .
It’s also nine more than Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre had during his campaign stop in Brampton on Wednesday. It seems there are more people needed when you are both prime minister and candidate to become prime minister. The good news for Carney’s campaign is that the cost to fill up the tanks of their tour buses and SUV motorcade is way down since the Prime Minister temporarily removed the carbon tax from gas at the pumps.
The bad news is that taxpayers are paying for a lot of it, no matter what the cost of gas or diesel is at the stations. For regular people, gas prices have been hovering between $1.11 to $1.
33 a litre over the last week. It has been a welcomed reprieve at a time when people are struggling to pay for groceries, rent or a mortgage, and skyrocketing insurance rates. The lowest price I’ve seen was $1.
17 in Mississauga. With food prices not coming down, cheaper gas certainly helps. But guess who is getting credit for it? Yes, the very people who put the carbon tax on gas to make it so expensive in the first place.
But according to Abacas Polling, a new poll this week showed 55% of those surveyed credited Carney and the Liberals for the lower fuel prices. How many vehicles do you count in PM @MarkJCarney ‘s motorcade? And don’t forget to add the media bus which left just minutes before pic.twitter.
com/TuIg9CZQi1— Joe Warmington (@joe_warmington) April 11, 2025 “It’s remarkable because it’s Pierre Poilievre who should get the credit,” said President of Canadians for Affordable Energy Dan McTeague, who runs the Gas Wizard price predicating website and is a former Liberal MP. And McTeague should get some credit as well. Both of them have been shining a light on what these carbon taxes are doing to the Canadian economy.
But it’s Carney who took it off, so people are thanking him for it. But people should make sure they enjoy the cheaper gas while it lasts because McTeague says prices will jump right back up if Carney is elected prime minister on April 28. WARMINGTON: Carney may be a boring banker, but drama still follows LiberalsWARMINGTON: Poilievre talks tough on crime, tariffs during raucous rally in BramptonWARMINGTON: This election campaign has seen both Tomfoolery and sabotage “The 20-cent savings now will end up as a 40-cent increase per litre as soon as the new taxes are implemented,” he told the Toronto Sun.
This is because while Carney has removed the consumer tax for now, all indications are a commercial tax will be added later. “Anybody who believes these prices will stay this way are so gullible you could sell them last year’s snow,” McTeague joked. Media bus pic.
twitter.com/cSCemwsn3b— Joe Warmington (@joe_warmington) April 10, 2025 And there will be no more of those $200 carbon rebate cheques, which the Trudeau-Liberals repeatedly tried to claim left most Canadians coming out ahead when most realize it was just a pittance of what they paid out. Carney has not yet provided details on what his new commercial carbon tax will look like, but McTeague believes his background of being a board member of the World Economic Forum in Davos and working with Brookfield Asset Management on clean energy projects offers insight into where he will take Canada.
“There will be a weather tax I guarantee you,” McTeague said. “He doesn’t have any intention of getting rid of the carbon tax. It will come back with a vengeance.
” “He hasn’t got rid of the bureaucracy, has introduced California standards for appliances and has policies that will see no pipelines built and others to keep oil in the ground, so there’s nothing to put in pipelines (if they are built),” he added. Mark Carney is the man sent by the now collapsing NetZero globalist crowd to shut down Canadian Oil and Gas. He can hardly be trusted to claim he will make Amanda and energy superpower when his actions over the decade clearly suggest otherwise https://t.
co/5fAD6pOwcD— Dan McTeague (@GasPriceWizard) April 11, 2025 Carney’s campaign disputed McTeague’s claim, with spokesperson Carolyn Svonkin telling the Sun, “Please point me to the source Mr. McTeague is citing in order to make that claim.” Meanwhile, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s campaign says, if elected, he will scrap the carbon tax permanently and the clean fuel standard, which he has called a second carbon tax.
This should mean gas prices will remain lower if the Conservatives form the next federal government, but they are not getting the pat on the back for that, according to abacus, which states just 28% are for Poilievre and 55% for Carney. But it was a motorcade of one for @PierrePoilievre https://t.co/yPAoKWpIsJ— Joe Warmington (@joe_warmington) April 11, 2025 It makes no sense.
If you are running a campaign that is reversing something, these are the kinds of voters you hope are out there. The problem is there really are not that many naive people when it comes to affordability issues for day-to-day life. There’s no spin, financial band-aid or voodoo math that can fool people who know how much they make, how much they owe and how much the price of everything has increased thanks to globalists who have mail boxes in the Cayman Islands to avoid paying the rapacious taxes that they force everybody else to pay.
Abacus is a good polling group, and while I respect the people there, it’s hard to not point out that even on this carbon tax removal credit poll it all comes down to what 1,900 people who were sent a survey said. How can anybody be sure that reflects the feelings of every voter across this vast and complicated country? Time will tell. In the meantime, top up that tank while gas prices are at levels not seen in years.
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