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‘All of Trudeau’s MPs bought out their constituents,’ says Conservative chief Pierre Poilievre
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There isn’t a option to sugarcoat it.
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There isn’t a option to clarify it to Albertans.
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Excuses simply gained’t reduce it.
We’re not silly. We gained’t purchase the bull.
It’s a sellout, plain and easy.
Two Alberta Liberal members of parliament, Calgary’s George Chahal and Edmonton’s Randy Boissonnault, vote towards the federal Conservative push to see all house heating payments get a reprieve from the carbon tax and never simply the payments of these utilizing heating oil.
Trudeau’s stunt is to have the overwhelming majority of Canadians nonetheless pay the carbon tax on house heating whereas a really small minority get a break, largely in Atlantic Canada the place the prime minister wants to spice up his social gathering’s reputation and the place Liberal MPs from down east pushed the PM.
It’s Trudeau and his trademark cynicism on full show. Once more.
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And, at gut-check time, all of the Liberal politicians in Ottawa toed the road.
“All of Trudeau’s MPs bought out their constituents,” says Conservative chief Pierre Poilievre, they usually did.
Conservatives vote for all Canadians to get a break from the carbon tax on their house heating payments.
NDP MPs vote with the Conservatives, whereas the Trudeau Liberals and the separatist Bloc Quebecois vote to present us the shaft, refusing to present us what most of us need.
Poilievre talks a couple of new Liberal-Bloc carbon tax coalition and a carbon tax election someday sooner or later.
Now it’s the separatists taking their flip to prop up the prime minister.
What a rustic.
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Monday morning, Michelle Rempel Garner, a Calgary Conservative MP, wonders how the Alberta Liberal MPs will vote.
“Hope springs everlasting,” stated Rempel Garner.
Hope dies Monday afternoon.
The MP says a variety of Liberal MPs “have actually misplaced the flexibility to assume for themselves.”
She says the carbon tax will not be working to scale back greenhouse fuel emissions. It’s simply one other improve in the price of residing together with all the opposite will increase in the price of residing.
“Individuals perceive it’s received to go. It is a no-brainer.”
The Liberals cling to their tax.
Rempel Garner says they’re inflicting of us a variety of heartache.
The Trudeau Liberals are in turmoil, with no imaginative and prescient for the nation and out of contact with actuality.
In the meantime, the premiers are in Halifax rallying round equity for all Canadians.
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Manitoba’s NDP premier Wab Kinew says persons are struggling and the carbon tax will not be a silver bullet on the subject of local weather change.
There have been premiers wanting greater than a pause from the carbon tax. They assume it needs to be gone.
On the weekend at her social gathering’s conference, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith tells journalists she figures the Supreme Courtroom of Canada didn’t give the Liberals the authority to impose a carbon tax the place they will “manipulate it for political favouritism.”
She says by twiddling with the tax and treating some Canadians extra equal than different Canadians they’ve “undermined their complete argument.”
Smith says she’s trying out whether or not Alberta can take the feds again to court docket and have the Trudeau carbon tax struck down.
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Earlier than the vote, Dominic LeBlanc, one other Trudeau sidekick, defends not giving us a carbon tax break on house heating payments.
“We’ve insurance policies that must be tailored to provincial realities.”
Dominic, inform your inexperienced guru Steven Guilbeault to adapt his pie-in-the-sky plans to the provincial realities of Alberta and Saskatchewan.
LeBlanc retains digging.
“Once we’re speaking about 13 premiers who get collectively and resolve to criticize the federal government that shouldn’t be information to you,” he tells Ottawa journalists.
“We’re not going to deviate from our insurance policies.” You already did.
Monday afternoon it’s query interval
Trudeau will not be within the Home of Commons.
Poilievre says he’s hiding. Conservative MPs ask whether or not Liberal MPs can be allowed to vote free from the whip of social gathering self-discipline.
When the voting is introduced, we all know the end result earlier than the votes are counted.
We lose once more.
The one drama is when Ken McDonald, a Liberal MP, is accused of giving the finger as he stood to vote.
The Liberal MP claims he was scratching the facet of his head with two fingers.
In the meantime, the query for Rempel is: “Do the Liberals give a rattling about Canada?”
“The jury is firmly out on that query, Rick, to place it mildly.”
Many jurors have already determined.
The Liberals don’t give a rattling.
rbell@postmedia.com
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