A day after his motion to stop the federal carbon tax from increasing in the new year was defeated, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has sponsored a new motion in the House of Commons to prevent any tax increases on “gas, groceries, home heating, and pay cheques.”
“Given that the cost of government is driving up inflation, making the price of goods Canadians buy and the interest they pay unaffordable, this House call on the government to commit to no new taxes on gas, groceries, home heating and pay cheques,” says the text of the motion introduced on Sept. 29. Conservative MP and House Leader Andrew Scheer, who introduced the motion in parliament, blamed the rising prices on the government’s “massive deficits” which he said sparked the current inflationary environment and “weakened” the economy.
“If you look at why prices are rising, it is directly linked to the massive deficits that this prime minister has been racking up pretty much since his first day in office,” Scheer said. “Their first year in power, this government made a conscious decision to spend more money than it received and plunge this country into those deficits.”…