What isn't getting more expensive? Do your worst, governments. That mainly affects the rich, the business class and the upper middle class, most of the rest cannot afford travel anyway.
this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2026
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Quite a big cost increase. However, it's not that big of a deal IMO -- Poor Canadians don't travel out of country much to begin with, so this disproportionately affects the wealthy and those who need to travel for business reasons (can probably get it expensed anyway).
Neoliberals doing neoliberal things.
Now do usage based billing for road costs.
We ballooned the cost of everything by handing out money, as the Bank of Canada funded the entirety of Covid debt with newly printed money and QE, and now hes raising taxes to pay for the expanded costs after every dollar was devalued.
Is that deregulation in some way, or what does Neoliberal mean now?
I like the sentiment but this would hurt some of the poorest in suburban or rural communities who are forced to commute quite far. How about fines and penalties (and vehicle registration) that scales against some non-income-based net worth assessment?
Turn the inconvenience fees for the rich into a painful but real source of revenue.
Raise it another 23 cents
Your increase percentage is wrong.
I just renewed my passport (10 year version) and it was $160 three days ago, which is a 66% increase, not 2.7%.
Did you apply for your passport from outside Canada? The current price of that is $260.
Yeah, I'm seeing that now.
Yeah let's fuck over Canadians as much as possible. Goddamn it! How can anyone live in any country when life is just that fucking expensive.
Its 2.7%...
There's a mistake in op's text.
I just renewed my passport (10 year version) and it was $160, which is 66%.
What was the price 10 years ago?
$115, I think.
Are you kidding me? That was when I got my passport and I will need to renew it next year.