P.E.I.’s 4 Liberal MPs to Premier Dennis King: Lower your own gas tax [Video]

P.E.I.’s four Liberal members of Parliament have made a counter-proposal to Premier Dennis King’s request that Ottawa reduce its carbon tax: They’ve told the premier to lower his own gas tax.

“If your preoccupation is with affordability, then we respectfully suggest that you are targeting the wrong tax,” the MPs wrote in a letter to the premier dated April 15, and recently shared on social media.

In March, King wrote to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau seeking a pause in the latest step-up of the carbon tax, which kicked in April 1.

“There are serious affordability challenges being faced by many Islanders,” King said in the letter.

While noting that carbon tax rebate payments “help to offset” the impact of that tax to Islanders, the premier said “adding to the cost of gas and diesel continually drives up the costs to goods, services, and food for Islanders.”

The four MPs and the premier agree on at least one thing: What the carbon tax costs …