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Ottawa extends the pause on federal fuel excise tax to 2027 | Globalnews.ca (opens the original)
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Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne said Wednesday that the current pause on the federal excise tax on gasoline and diesel will be extended until next February. The extension was first reported by Radio-Canada and confirmed by Global News’ sources Wednesday morning. The federal excise tax on gasoline was 10 cents a litre and the tax on diesel was four cents a litre but those taxes were suspended in April. The suspension was to have ended on Sept. 8. Now, with fuel prices pushing higher
ANALYSIS: With four vacant ridings, why did Carney call just three byelections? - National | Globalnews.ca (opens the original)
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Voters in three federal ridings are being courted this summer by candidates hoping to fill vacant seats in the House of Commons. There are actually four ridings without an MP right now, but only three byelections. Why didn’t Prime Minister Mark Carney call four? The answer is a bit complicated, but the bottom line is that Liberal strategists would clearly have advised the prime minister that, given the unique political circumstances of the ridings that are currently vacant, the Liberals could gi
25% of Canadians say StatCan not free of political influence: internal poll - National | Globalnews.ca (opens the original)
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Nearly 20 per cent of Canadians do not trust Statistics Canada to protect personal data the federal government agency collects, while 25 per cent say they do not believe the agency operates free of political influence, according to internal government polling obtained by Global News. Among other findings, the polling shows that 62 per cent of Canadians believe Statistics Canada’s data to be reliable but 12.6 per cent did not believe in the agency’s ability to “get it right when it comes to data
Internal PMO polls told Carney Canadians backed pipeline plan | Globalnews.ca (opens the original)
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Throughout the negotiations last fall and earlier this year between Ottawa and the provincial governments in Alberta and British Columbia, Prime Minister Carney has been guided by a series of internal government polls that showed a significant majority of Canadians were broadly in favour of his plan to push a new oil pipeline to the Pacific Coast, according to documents obtained by Global News. Twice in the middle of last November, the Privy Council Office (PCO) included several questions in its
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