The motion by Conservative Leader
Pierre Poilievre to have Ottawa extend its carbon price pause to all forms of home heating has been defeated as the Bloc Québécois joined the Liberals to vote down the motion.
It did not affect Quebec, so they voted it down? Have to keep that one in mind when I vote next. If anything, you think they would’ve voted out of equity like the NDP or abstain, if it did not affect them, but….There was nothing in this for Quebec I suppose.
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The above is last week with this Liberal announcement and below is to yesterday before this vote where the Liberals potentially picked up two seats in Ontario.
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“Given that the government has announced a ‘temporary, three-year pause’ to the federal carbon tax on home heating oil, the House call on the government to extend that pause to all forms of home heating,” Poilievre’s motion reads.
Last Tuesday, Trudeau said
“absolutely not” to the possibility of more carve-outs in the federal carbon price despite the criticisms of the heating oil plan.
The Liberals’ 158 seats are enough to defeat the combined 142 seats of the Conservatives and the NDP, who announced they would support the motion on Thursday.
This meant the Bloc Québécois held the balance in this vote with 32 seats and chose to vote with the Liberals.
In announcing his party’s support for Poilievre’s motion Thursday, NDP MP Peter Julian told reporters in Ottawa his party would be support the motion due to “equity.”
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University of Calgary economist Trevor Tombe told Global News last week he does not anticipate
this debate receding as he believes the pause undermines the carbon price, a key policy of Trudeau’s government.
“Its core strength is in providing a uniform incentive to all individuals, all businesses, regardless of where they live, what sector they’re in, what fuel they use,” Tombe said.
“So, I think this is a move that not only undermines the carbon tax itself but changes the conversation around the carbon tax in a fundamental way that will potentially lead to more exemptions. And I think potentially the carbon tax itself, at least at the retail level, being removed entirely.”
MPs voted Monday to reject a motion by Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre to have Ottawa extend its carbon price pause to all forms of home heating.
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In exchange for commitments to increase housing density, Fraser has agreed to cut cheques for municipalities. The issue for the premiers is these deals have been made without provincial involvement — except in Quebec, where the province brokered
a $900-million deal with Ottawa on behalf of all its cities and towns.
Every Quebec municipality will have access to funds, while others across the country will have to meet Ottawa's terms to get money through a bilateral deal, said Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.
Hmmm….
Canada's premiers lashed out at the federal government Monday, saying Ottawa is treading on thin ice by signing bilateral housing deals directly with municipalities while leaving provinces out of the mix.
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