Try refreshing your browser, or JAY GOLDBERG: Mark Carney must end Justin Trudeau’s undemocratic alcohol tax hikes Back to video We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Over the past nine years, this undemocratic tax hike has cost Canadian consumers roughly $1.6 billion, according to the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. And that’s before the brunt of the Trudeau government’s alcohol escalator tax was even felt. According to the Conservative platform, undoing the escalator tax would save Canadian consumers $366 million this year alone. Most members of Parliament in Ottawa today weren’t even there back in 2017 when the alcohol escalator tax was first introduced.