{"id":29860,"date":"2025-07-28T17:18:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T17:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/29860\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T17:18:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T17:18:12","slug":"carney-cuts-confederation-bridge-tolls-ferry-rates-to-fulfill-election-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/29860\/","title":{"rendered":"Carney cuts Confederation Bridge tolls, ferry rates to fulfill election promise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Mark Carney has <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11095401\/confederation-bridge-tolls-pei-premier\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">fulfilled a federal Liberals election promise<\/a> to reduce tolls on the <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/confederation-bridge\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Confederation Bridge<\/a>, which links Prince Edward Island with mainland Canada.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753129028_943_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Carney, who was in Prince Edward Island on Monday, said tolls will drop from $50.25 to $20 starting Aug. 1 for vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The bridge handles around 95 per cent of all passenger and commercial traffic to and from the province.<\/p>\n<p>As well, the federal government is cutting fares by half for passengers, vehicles and commercial traffic on the Eastern Canada Ferry Services.<\/p>\n<p>Those ferries include routes between Woods Island, P.E.I. and Caribou, N.S., Saint John, N.B. and Digby, N.S., as well as \u00celes-de-la-Madeleine, Qu\u00e9. and Souris, P.E.I.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Confederation Bridge toll becomes federal election issue'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/confederation.bridge.tolls.lapointe.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1:48<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tConfederation Bridge toll becomes federal election issue\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Marine Atlantic, a constitutionally mandated ferry service connecting Nova Scotia and\u00a0Newfoundland, will reduce traveller fares by 50 per cent and freeze commercial freight rates.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11296590\/ontario-family-sues-hospital-staff-sons-death\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753723091_133_Finlay.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tOntario family sues hospital and staff over son\u2019s death\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11306477\/european-union-trump-tariffs\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/CP174807384.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tA new trade agreement has been reached between the U.S. and EU with 15% tariffs\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa notes that Marine Atlantic plays a \u201ccritical role in the region\u2019s trade and social links.\u201d Nearly 65 per cent of goods that are transported to and from Newfoundland are transported by Marine Atlantic, including 90 per cent of all perishables like produce and propane.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753128969_722_national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<p>Carney said that cutting tolls and fares in Atlantic Canada will save Canadians and businesses millions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we make it more affordable to travel between provinces, we increase mobility across the region. We build a stronger Atlantic Canada, and with more opportunity and greater prosperity,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Editor\u2019s note: An earlier version of this story referred to a federal government media release saying fuel surcharges would be eliminated for the ferries. The Prime Minister\u2019s Office has since amended that release to remove that line.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Canada<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size Prime Minister Mark Carney has fulfilled a federal Liberals election&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,23411,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-29860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-canada","tag-confederation-bridge","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}