There's a special excise tax on gasoline for highway and road maintenance.

EVs don't pay that tax because they use normal electricity. So Alberta introduced a $200 EV fee to match the average revenue from the excise tax.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-electric-veh...

Alberta is imposing a charge on EV registrations, and they increased it again this year. At some point I'm hoping courts curtail their attempt at imposing gas cars but given how Canadian courts are hamstrung at obvious human rights issues in places like Quebec, I doubt they will do anything about Alberta either.

https://www.saskatchewan.ca/business/taxes-licensing-and-rep...

Some countries charge a road tax or annual vehicle tax, and ev’s are often except as a green incentive