I'd like to see this lost revenue offset by a windfall tax on oil & gas companies.

1. Price climbs reflecting global demand
2. governments cut tax to reduce inflation
3. People do not adjust habits, gasoline shortage continues
4. price climbs
5. government has no levers, and has no gas tax revenue.

Winning!

Better options:

• immediate work from home for all federal employees and strong guidance for employers/tax breaks for wfh
• increase funding of public transit expansions
• land development guidance supporting walkable neighborhoods
• rebate packages for farmers

and mandating work from home where feasible, right? Right?

It's a bad move, even on a temporary short-term basis. In the short run the amount of oil available will be the same, the amount of oil products people want will be the same, and thus the amount of "price rationing" required and therefore the price will be the same, whether the money goes to the federal government or to the oil companies.

Why is Pierre Poilievre not the leader of the Liberal party at this point??? Ffs.

Digging a deeper deficit hole just so the oil and gas companies that will just pad their bottom line by increasing cost anyway for the consumer.

Imagine calculating what that deficit would be in dumping that money into public transit. Increasing service.

Anything, anything but pass the cost onto the people who can actually afford it: the ruling class.

What's stopping gas stations from raising prices 10 cents?