I’m asking Prime Minister Justin Trudeau what he has done with over $100,000,000 taken from rural Canadians. This comes after the Liberal Government released the updated number of Canadian families receiving the Rural Supplement, that had previously been added to the Carbon Rebate, declined by 828,150 this year.
Trudeau bragged about doubling the Rural Rebate. Now we know how he paid for it – by claiming 800,000 fewer Canadians live in rural Canada.
According to Statistics Canada, in Ontario there are 2,514,731 rural residents living outside a Census Metropolitan Area. Last year 1,705,560 Ontario families received the rural supplement. This year, according to figures released by the Canada Revenue Agency, only 1,060,670 were eligible to receive the rural supplement. Following changes to the legislation establishing the Liberal Carbon Tax made in June, Canadians, who lost their rural status as a result of updates following the most recent census, will continue to receive the rural supplement, but only for the remainder of the current fiscal year.
Trudeau’s policies made housing in Canadian cities unaffordable. Now, more and more Canadians must move outside those cities, and outside the range of municipal public transit, just to find a home. Trudeau’s plan is to punish those Canadians by increasing taxes on the gas they need to drive to work, while cutting their Carbon Rebates by 20% at the same time. Residents in those rural communities welcomed the Canadians who had become refugees of the affordability crisis. Now those communities will be punished for the sin of having affordable housing policies.