An Act to amend the Excise Tax Act (carbon pollution pricing)
Bill C-358 was a Conservative opposition bill sponsored by MP Dan Albas (Central Okanagan-Similkameen-Nicola) to remove the consumer fuel-charge components of the federal carbon-pricing framework from the Excise Tax Act. The federal carbon-pricing backstop (the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act, S.C. 2018, c. 12, s. 186) was upheld as a valid exercise of federal jurisdiction by the Supreme Court of Canada in Reference re Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act (2021 SCC 11) by a 6-3 majority. C-358 did not pass second reading; the Carney Liberal government subsequently announced in 2025 it would eliminate the consumer-facing portion of the federal carbon tax.
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Would remove the consumer fuel-charge part of federal carbon pricing from the Excise Tax Act. The federal carbon-pricing law was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2021. The bill did not pass; the Carney government later moved in 2025 to end the consumer carbon charge anyway.
Issues this bill touches
- Tax & Fiscal Policy
Earlier version of C-396. Exempts the federal fuel charge from GST/HST.
Legislative history
- First reading
First reading in the House of Commons.
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