{"id":51639,"date":"2026-04-15T08:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T12:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/?p=51639"},"modified":"2026-04-15T09:40:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:40:25","slug":"professor-chris-worswick-published-an-opinion-piece-in-the-globe-and-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/2026\/professor-chris-worswick-published-an-opinion-piece-in-the-globe-and-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Vivek Dehejia Quoted in iPOLITICS on Canada\u2019s Temporary Suspension of Federal Fuel Tax Amid Middle East Conflicts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Professor Vivek Dehejia Quoted in iPOLITICS on Canada\u2019s Temporary Suspension of Federal Fuel Tax Amid Middle East Conflicts\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                                    \n\n<p>Here is quote: &#8220;while Carney\u2019s announcement offers some short-tern relief to consumers as gas prices climb amid the Iran conflict, the move is largely \u201coptical\u201d after securing a majority government.\u00a0&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The full article is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipolitics.ca\/2026\/04\/14\/liberals-suspend-federal-fuel-excise-taxes-until-labour-day\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.ipolitics.ca\/2026\/04\/14\/liberals-suspend-federal-fuel-excise-taxes-until-labour-day\/\">iPOLITICS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The full article is available on iPOLITICS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":314,"featured_media":45154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51639"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53247,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51639\/revisions\/53247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}