The Canadian Taxpayers Federation agrees with the Saskatchewan NDP and its call for the provincial government to cut its 15 cent per litre tax on gasoline and diesel.

Prairie Director of the CTF, Gage Haubrich (haw brick), considers cutting the gas tax a no brainer which the government could act on quickly and save residents money instantly. He suggests that unlike sending out Affordability Tax Credit cheques, as the government did in 2022, a gas tax cut doesn’t have any bureaucracy behind it. The province could just stop collecting it.

Haubrich explains that the province currently charges 15 cents per litre on both gas and diesel, so a two-car family with a minivan and a lither duty pickup would save $11 and $15 respectively every time they fill up. The federal carbon tax is 14 cents per litre of gas right now, but in April that will jump to 17 cents and by 2030, it will be 37 cents per litre.