Tell your new MPP: Keep your promise to fund transit!

Cutting the gas tax — a crucial source of municipal transit funding — is at the top of Premier Doug Ford's to-do list. 

But Premier Ford also promised to keep 2 cents per litre flowing to local transit systems, and to double the gas tax contribution to municipalities by 2021.

Let's tell our new MPPs: Keep your promise to fund transit! 

 
  1. Call your new Progressive Conservative MPP and remind them of their promise to double the gas tax contribution by 2021. Find their number here and use the script below.
  2. Join our phone bank on Tuesday, July 3!  We're calling in to our supporters in key ridings from 6pm-8pm, at 720 Bathurst Street on the main floor ("June's Room").  
  3. Can't make it? Come to our organizing meeting on July 9, 2018. Get involved in our campaign for an affordable, world-class public transit system. 

Phone script

Find your MPP's number here. If your MPP's number isn't available yet or isn't a member of the PC party, call Premier-designate Doug Ford's office at 416-745-2859.
Hi, my name is _______ and I’m calling about the gas tax cuts. I am a transit rider and I live in your riding.

Your campaign promised that you would make life more affordable and that you would not cut services.

That’s why I am calling on you to keep your promise to keep 2-cents per litre of gas tax going to municipalities for transit AND to honour the plan to double the gas tax contribution by 2021.

To make life affordable, we need good public transit. The TTC needs MORE funding, not less, so we can have lower fares and better service.

I look forward to learning about your plans to invest in public transit. 

Quick facts about the gas tax:

  • Doug Ford promised to lower gas prices by 10 cents by cutting 5.7 cents from the gas tax and cancelling cap and trade. 
  • The PC campaign has promised to keep contributing 2 cents per litre of gas tax to municipal transit systems.
  • The provincial gas tax contribution to municipalities is currently 2 cents per litre, and the TTC receives about $176 million per year.
  • In 2017, the province committed to increase the gas tax contribution starting in 2019, and double it by 2021 so that the TTC would receive about $320 million per year. 
  • The PC campaign promised to honour this commitment to double the gas tax contribution. 
  • Municipalities get to decide how to spend the gas tax on transit. The TTC uses about $91.6 million for operating costs, which is about one eighth of the TTC's operating budget. Another $75 million goes to capital costs, about half of which goes to the “Easier Access Program,” the TTC's plan to install elevators by 2025. 

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