With Bloc Quebecois support, Canada's Liberal government has defeated a motion to exempt all forms of home heating from its carbon tax.
Liberals, Bloc Québécois strike down Poilievre's pitch to exempt all home heating from carbon tax | CBC News:| Benjamin Lopez Steven:
November 6, 2023 - "The Liberals and the Bloc Québécois voted Monday to strike down a motion calling on the federal government to extend a carbon tax exemption to all forms of home heating, not just heating oil. The non-binding motion was sponsored by Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre, who said the exemption is divisive and that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is engaging in regional favouritism.
"Speaking outside the House of Commons after the vote, Poilievre said Trudeau has a "carbon tax coalition" with the Bloc Québécois, whom he referred to as 'separatists.' 'He's now signed on with the separatists to divide Canadians into two separate classes: those who will have to pay carbon tax on their home heat, and a small minority who will get a pause from the pain,' he said....
"The New Democrats voted in favour of Poilievre's motion. NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said he is 'always reluctant to vote alongside the Conservatives in any way" but he also rejects 'the divisive approach of the Liberals.'
"At a meeting in Halifax on Monday, Canada's premiers said they want fair treatment under the carbon tax. Some went even further; Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston said the tax should be eliminated altogether."
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-carbon-tax-heating-1.7019822
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Trudeau in a tailspin as his carbon tax blows up | CTV News | Tom Mulcair:
November 7, 2023 - "The Liberals have won three consecutive elections posturing on climate change while finger-pointing at the scary Conservatives who were, in their telling, climate change deniers. Problem is, the Liberals have never gotten it done under Trudeau (Paris Accord) any more than they did under Jean Chretien or Paul Martin (Kyoto Protocol). In short, they didn’t have to, they only had to appear to care more than the Conservatives, and the trick was done. People who cared about future generations saw the Liberals as the better option....
"What Trudeau didn’t realize, as he rolled out the most recent increase to his carbon tax last summer, was the depth of the organized resistance among certain Atlantic premiers, the formidable Tim Houston of Nova Scotia, first among them. Average folks were in full revolt. Liberal MPs in the Atlantic region were in panic mode. Trudeau reacted precipitously and with very little thought about possible consequences of his reversal.
"First, he only announced a pause of three years of the carbon tax on home heating oil. That was like putting a sandwich sign on his poor MPs saying: whatever you do, don’t vote for me because we’re still planning to hit you with our carbon tax if we come back. Second, the millions of Canadians who consider the fight against climate change to be a priority were crestfallen. Trudeau had abandoned his key promise to them and they weren’t amused. Third, and this was the easiest part to predict, Canadians who heat with fuels other than furnace oil (like natural gas in Ontario) were furious. Natural gas, much less polluting than furnace oil, was going to be taxed but furnace oil wasn’t? Where was the fairness in that?...
"This has been such a spectacular crash and burn for Trudeau that it’s hard to see how he can ever regain any credibility with Canadians who care about the fight against climate change."
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