NDP's Singh calls out 'climate delay Liberals, and climate deny Conservatives' as home heating motion defeated
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A motion calling for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to permanently remove the GST from all forms of home heating was defeated Wednesday after the NDP failed to find support among any major party in the House of Commons.
A motion calling for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to permanently remove the GST from all forms of home heating was defeated Wednesday after the NDP failed to find support among any major party in the House of Commons.
On Wednesday afternoon, the proposal was voted down 292 to 30, with the New Democrat, and Green parties backing it.
Similar to Monday's failed Conservative motion calling for the three-year pause on the carbon price collected from home heating oil to be expanded to all forms of home heating, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh's proposal was non-binding, meaning even if it had passed, it wouldn’t have forced the government to act.
Specifically, the NDP wanted the government to:
Ahead of the vote, the NDP noted that 13 years ago, then-NDP leader Jack Layton tried to push for a similar proposal, and then too the Liberals and Conservatives rejected it.
This motion was the latest effort from opposition parties to keep the carbon pricing conversation alive on Parliament Hill, after the federal Liberals faced backlash over the home heating oil carve-out to the carbon tax.
In Wednesday's question period, the fraying cross-party relations over the heated file were on display.
