OTTAWA — The federal Liberal authorities is not going to be pressured into an election over carbon pricing — a minimum of not at present.
The Liberals, NDP and Bloc Québécois all voted towards a Conservative movement calling for a confidence vote in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for refusing to name off a deliberate April improve in Canada’s carbon value.
The worth will go up by $15 a tonne subsequent month as scheduled, including one other 3.3 cents to the worth of a litre of gasoline and a couple of.86 cents for a cubic metre of pure fuel.
Conservative Chief Pierre Poilievre says carbon pricing makes all the things dearer.
However the Liberals insist their rebates imply most Canadians should not worse off on account of the levy.
There isn’t any legislation or parliamentary rule governing confidence motions and whether or not they can set off an election. Moderately, it’s only conference {that a} authorities ought to fall after dropping a confidence vote.
It was the eleventh time in 18 months as Conservative chief that Poilievre has moved a movement to kill or amend the carbon value. It was, nonetheless, the primary to explicitly categorical non-confidence in Trudeau.
All of them have been voted down.
New Democrat MP Heather McPherson mentioned the Conservatives have introduced so many motions on carbon pricing that it felt like Groundhog Day within the chamber.
She mentioned the repeated motions are clearly a stunt for political impact.
Not one of the official celebration leaders confirmed up in individual to vote, a transparent signal it was not anticipated to move.
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed March 21, 2024.
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