{"id":3617,"date":"2023-11-01T18:08:40","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T18:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/cta-calls-on-government-to-introduce-policy-equity-to-carbon-pricing\/"},"modified":"2025-01-10T16:41:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T16:41:57","slug":"cta-calls-on-government-to-introduce-policy-equity-to-carbon-pricing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/cta-calls-on-government-to-introduce-policy-equity-to-carbon-pricing\/","title":{"rendered":"CTA Calls on Government to Introduce Policy Equity to Carbon Pricing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Government of Canada made a change last week to the carbon pricing system by providing a three-year carbon tax exemption for home heating oil on a regional basis and providing higher carbon tax rebates for people in rural areas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Part of the rational provided for these changes is to bring relief amid soaring costs of living. In this announcement, the Prime Minister reaffirmed that the intent of carbon pricing was to\u00a0get people to change behaviour so we can collectively reduce our carbon footprint.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA) welcomes this recognition by the Government of Canada that the carbon pricing mechanism is causing economic hardship for Canadians and the changing behaviour can be challenging for certain areas of the economy. This statement also aptly describes the situation facing trucking companies of all sizes from across Canada,\u201d said CTA president Stephen Laskowski.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While CTA has remained vocal about supporting policies to reduce the effects of climate change from all sectors, the Government of Canada\u2019s recognition there are challenges to achieving these goals \u2013 whether financial or technological constraints \u2013 marks a fundamental shift in policy regarding carbon pricing in Canada.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To provide inflationary relief to Canadians and maintain policy equity in the carbon pricing system, CTA asks that the Government of Canada introduce the following measures:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li>Suspend\u00a0the carbon price on\u00a0diesel fuel for three years. Currently this tax serves no policy purpose as there are not readily-available or operationally feasible\u00a0zero-emission\u00a0engine alternatives for long-haul truckers to use (Currently only 2.8% of passenger vehicles on Canadian roads require diesel fuel).<\/li>\n<li>Suspend the four cent a litre federal excise tax on diesel fuel until inflation has been brought under control. The federal excise tax costs a long-haul truck driver operating a 300-gallon tank vehicle an additional $45 per fill-up.<\/li>\n<li>Restore the tax rebate that the Government of Canada removed from fuel that is used to power cooling devices that keep\u00a0food\u00a0trailers refrigerated and safe; as well as pumping devices used to remove\u00a0food\u00a0products, or commodities used to make\u00a0food\u00a0products, out of tanker trailers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cDespite the best efforts of our sector and our equipment suppliers to advance decarbonization efforts, the diesel engine will continue to remain the core method of propulsion for our sector \u2013 not necessarily by choice, but because of operational and technological realities that will limit uptake of alternate power options in our sector,\u201d said Laskowski.\u00a0\u201cAccordingly, we urge the government acknowledges that carbon pricing cannot significantly change engine purchasing behaviour in trucking. Instead, carbon pricing\u00a0will only continue to increase the cost of transportation services and, therefore,\u00a0all goods\u00a0that are moved by truck, including\u00a0food, clothing, household goods and other products critical\u00a0to the wellbeing of Canadians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The trucking industry and CTA members are investing millions in various alternative technologies designed to replace the modern diesel engine and reduce our reliance on diesel fuel. This is highlighted by the Alberta Motor Transport Association (AMTA) investing in a multi-million-dollar program exploring the introduction of hydrogen fuel technology into trucking fleets. The results of these fleet experiences and current realities around decarbonization will be shared with all levels of government through a report in early 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government of Canada made a change last week to the carbon pricing system by providing a three-year carbon tax exemption for home heating oil on a regional basis and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,44,17],"tags":[951,56,100,1443,2326,2327],"class_list":["post-3617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-admin-tax","category-environment-fuel","category-news-releases","tag-carbon-tax","tag-diesel-fuel","tag-emissions","tag-hydrogen","tag-rebates","tag-tax-exemption"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}