Tories threaten all-nighter over true cost to Canadians of Liberal carbon price
OTTAWA — MPs were facing another long night of marathon voting Thursday as the Conservatives pushed the government to disclose how much its carbon price is going to cost Canadian families.
Finance critic Pierre Poilievre said his goal is to make the government feel “as uncomfortable as possible until they tell the truth” about how much more Canadians will pay for everything from groceries to gasoline because of the carbon price.
“If this government is going to make Canadians pay the price we’re going to make the government pay the price by keeping them here for 25 hours straight voting on their carbon tax cover up,” Poilievre said.
The Conservatives had lined up more than 200 votes on the government’s main spending plan and threatened to proceed with them late Thursday if the government opposed a Tory motion calling on it to table by June 22 how much the proposed $50-per-tonne carbon price will cost Canadian families.