Poilievre promises 'multiple' House votes to pressure PM Trudeau to scrap carbon tax hike
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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is putting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on notice that his party plans to force 'multiple votes' when the House of Commons returns, resuming its pressure campaign to see the Liberals scrap the planned April 1 carbon tax increase.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is putting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on notice that his party plans to force "multiple votes" when the House of Commons returns, resuming its pressure campaign to see the Liberals scrap the planned April 1 carbon tax increase.
"Next week we will be forcing multiple votes in Parliament to spike Trudeau's tax hike. The final vote will be next Thursday. Mark your calendars," Poilievre said in a statement issued Wednesday morning.
CTV News has reached out to Conservative House Leader Andrew Scheer's office about how exactly the Official Opposition intends to enact this multiple vote plan, but the move is just the latest in Poilievre's attempts to use procedural mechanisms to push Trudeau to reverse course on the contentious carbon policy.
The Conservatives' latest salvo comes as yet another provincial leader—Liberal Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey—calls on the Trudeau government to pause next month's carbon tax hike.
"The coming almost 25 (per cent) increase … in the federal carbon tax on April 1st is causing understandable worry," Furey wrote in a letter to Trudeau published on social media Tuesday. "I respectfully request that you consider pausing the implementation… at least until inflation stabilizes, interest rates lower and related economic pressures on the cost of living sufficiently cool."
Furey is the latest in a growing number of premiers to oppose or defy elements of the carbon tax, including Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston—who penned his own letter to Trudeau—New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs, Ontario Premier Doug Ford, Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.
"Trudeau is facing a provincial revolt," Poilievre said Wednesday. "But Trudeau isn’t listening."
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