Ford's 2018 platform promised to cut the aviation fuel tax in Northern Ontario
“Cut the aviation fuel tax for the North to reduce the cost of living in the North.”
2018 PC platform, · PC platform, Plan for the People
What happened · Dec 10, 2019
Bill 138, the Plan to Build Ontario Together Act, 2019 (Royal Assent December 10, 2019), cut the Gasoline Tax Act rate on aviation fuel bought and loaded in Northern Ontario from 6.7 to 2.7 cents a litre, effective January 1, 2020.
The 2019 Fall Economic Statement proposed cutting the aviation fuel tax in Northern Ontario to 2.7 cents a litre from 6.7 cents, effective January 1, 2020. 'Northern Ontario' covered the districts of Algoma, Cochrane, Kenora, Manitoulin, Nipissing, Parry Sound, Rainy River, Sudbury, Thunder Bay and Timiskaming. Greg Rickford announced it at Thunder Bay airport on November 13, 2019. The cut was enacted in Bill 138, the Plan to Build Ontario Together Act, 2019, which received Royal Assent on December 10, 2019.