Report From Parliament Hill

Eric Melillo, MP, Kenora Riding

Dear Constituents

After 9 years of this NDP-Liberal government, Canadians are being forced to cancel their summer vacation as the NDP-Liberal tax-and-spend agenda has made even a simple road trip unaffordable. Parents can barely afford basic necessities, much less a summer vacation.
Families will have to pay $700 more for food this year than they did in 2023. Last year, food banks had to handle a record 2 million visits in a single month, with a million more visits expected in 2024. 
Even members of our armed forces cannot afford the price of food, having to rely on food banks and donations.
In the middle of this historic cost-of-living crisis, the Liberals and their NDP coalition partners decided to hike the carbon tax by 23 percent. This is just one step in their plan to quadruple the carbon tax over the next six years, making everything more expensive at the worst possible time.
In fact, since Trudeau became Prime Minister, fuel prices have surged by more than 50%.
The Parliamentary Budget Officer has been clear that most families will pay more in the carbon tax than they receive in the rebate. 
This year, Trudeau’s carbon tax will cost families in Ontario $1,674.
Common Sense Conservatives are calling on the NDP-Liberal government to give Canadians a summer break by axing the carbon tax, the federal fuel tax, and GST on gasoline and diesel until and Labour Day so families can afford a simple summer vacation.
This would save the average Canadian family $670 over the summer, and would lower gas prices by 35.6 cents per litre on average.
And to pay for it, Conservatives are calling on the government to cut back the over $21 billion in spending on overpriced consultants, which has gone up almost 100% since 2015, for contracts like the $54 million ArriveScam app.
Conservatives will axe the tax on everything for everyone in a carbon tax election, but until that can happen, the NDP-Liberal government must adopt this common-sense measure to give Canadians a summer break. 
Working for You 
If you’re planning to be in Ottawa and are interested in attending Question Period or taking a tour of Parliament, please let me know and my office can help reserve Question Period and tour tickets. 
As always, if there is anything my office can assist you with, please call me at 807-223-2182 (Dryden) or 807-468-2170 (Kenora) or email me at [email protected].

Sincerely,
Eric Melillo
Member of Parliament
Kenora Riding