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Manitoba government introduces permanent cut to provincial fuel tax

By: Ashleigh Viveiros

Date:

January 9, 2025

Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew announced that the provincial fuel tax in Manitoba will have a permanent reduction of 10 per cent.

“Our government keeps our word. We said we’d cut the fuel tax and we did,” said Kinew. “We said it would last 12 months and it did.

According to Kinew, the Manitoba government is committed to fulfilling its promises. This includes following through on their pledge to reduce the fuel tax, which has already been in effect for 12 months.

“Now we’re going further by bringing in a permanent cut to the fuel tax to make it one of the lowest in Canada,” said Kinew.

The cut to the fuel tax represents a 10 per cent reduction to the fuel tax rate that was in place previously, noted the premier. The 12.5 cent per litre fuel tax rate will be applied to gasoline and diesel across the province beginning on Jan. 1, 2025.

The fuel tax holiday has helped slow inflation in Manitoba, the premier noted. Manitoba maintained the lowest gas prices in Canada for the entire year of 2024.

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Ashleigh Viveiros

Editor, Winkler Morden Voice and Altona Rhineland Voice. Ashleigh has been covering the goings-on in the Pembina Valley since 2000, starting as cub reporter on the high school news beat for the former Winkler Times and working her way up to the editor’s chair at the Winkler Morden Voice (2010) and Altona Rhineland Voice (2022). Ashleigh has a passion for community journalism, sharing the stories that really matter to people and helping to shine a spotlight on some of the amazing individuals, organizations, programs, and events that together create the wonderful mosaic that is this community. Under her leadership, the Voice has received numerous awards from the Manitoba Community Newspapers Association, including Best All-Around Newspaper, Best in Class, and Best Layout and Design. Ashleigh herself has been honoured with multiple writing awards in various categories—tourism, arts and culture, education, history, health, and news, among others—and received a second-place nod for the Reporter of the Year Award in 2022. She has also received top-three finishes multiple times in the Better Communities Story of the Year category, which recognizes the best article with a focus on outstanding local leadership and citizenship, volunteerism, and/or non-profit efforts deemed innovative or of overall benefit to community living. It’s these stories that Ashleigh most loves to pursue, as they truly depict the heart and soul of the community. In her spare time, Ashleigh has been involved as a volunteer with United Way Pembina Valley, Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Pembina Valley, and the Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre.

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