Scheer defends unsolicited anti-carbon tax texts sent by his party
Liberal MPs received"fill your tank!" reminders, too.Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer takes part in an armchair discussion at the Manning Networking Conference in Ottawa on March 23, 2019.
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is defending his party's decision to send unsolicited texts to Canadians in four provinces, urging them to fill up their vehicles with gas. Late last week and over the weekend, the party sent messages to people in New Brunswick, Ontario, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan that warned gas prices were set to spike.
Those four provinces refused to put a price on carbon emissions and, as of Monday, have seen the federal government impose a carbon tax of $20 per tonne on them. The price is projected to rise to $50 per tonne by 2022. While the starting rate adds 4.4 cents to the price of a litre of gas, individuals in those four provinces will receiveThough Conservatives pulled contact information from their own database of supporters,
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