The NDP-Liberal Government promised to increase the rural supplement from 10% to 20%. Instead, the government secretly cut thousands of Canadians off from receiving the supplement altogether.
The rural supplement to the Carbon Tax Rebate is paid to Canadians, who live outside a Census Metropolitan Area (CMA), so long as they completed a 2023 tax return, and checked the box indicating they live outside a Census Metropolitan Area.
Forcing Canadians to opt-in to the rural supplement is another way for the Canada Revenue Agency and the Liberals to discriminate against rural Canadians. That CRA can deny people living in rural communities the rural supplement only proves the purpose of the checkbox on the tax return is to reduce the number who opt-in.
The boundaries of a Census Metropolitan Area are determined by economic criteria that has almost no impact on the amount of Carbon Tax a Canadian pays. The expansion of the metro boundaries may be a signal that people living on the edges of a metro area are in fact paying more in Carbon Taxes. Arnprior was added to the Ottawa-Gatineau Census Metropolitan Area after the 2021 census revealed that over 50% of Arnprior residents were now driving to Ottawa for work. McNab/Braeside was included because more than 50% of residents already worked in Arnprior.
Trudeau’s high tax, high deficit agenda fueled inflation, and drove up home prices. This forced many people to move further and further from the city. Now that they have to drive to Ottawa for work, they pay even more in Carbon Taxes than they would if they had been able to find an affordable home in the city.
I ask residents of McNab/Braeside and Arnprior to check their bank statements and report how much they received in climate rebate payments. You can contact me by phone at 613-992-7712, by email at cheryl.gallant@parl.gc.ca, or online at cherylgallant.com/rural-rebate.