Forcing gas station operators to display Ontario government stickers on the federal carbon tax violates their rights and freedoms, the province's chamber of commerce said Thursday as it asked the Progressive Conservatives to reverse their decision.
In a letter Thursday to the Energy Minister Greg Rickford, chamber president Rocco Rossi said the group's members are concerned about the "political nature" of the decals, which were unveiled earlier this month as part of the Tory government's fight against the federal levy.
The government said last week the stickers will cost taxpayers approximately $5,000 to print 25,000 decals but that does not cover the cost to distribute them to the province's 3,200 gas stations. "This initiative is an example of unnecessary red tape: it is both a new administrative burden and an increased cost to business thanks to the punitive and outsized fines for non-compliance," he said in the letter.
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