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Ford government to make gas tax cut permanent despite carbon tax change | Globalnews.ca

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Ontario Premier Doug Ford will push ahead with an election promise to permanently cut the provincial gas tax by 5.7 cents per litre.

On Friday , Prime Minister Mark Carney signed an order-in-council removing the consumer fuel charge as of April 1 .

The move is expected to reduce the price of gas in the province by roughly 17.6 cents .

Ford 's office says it will keep the gas tax cut in place in spite of the changes in Ottawa .

Ford ’s office is unclear on how the government will treat the industrial carbon tax, which mirrors the federal charge.

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