Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s motion to exempt home heating fuel from the federal carbon tax has been defeated by MPs in a House of Commons vote on Oct. 24.
The vote was defeated 116-202, with the majority of Liberal, NDP, and Bloc Québécois MPs voting against it, while all the Conservative MPs taking part in the vote were in favour of the motion. Independent MPs Alain Rayes and Kevin Vuong also voted for the motion.
“Liberal-NDP #CostlyCoalition votes to TRIPLE carbon taxes on your home heating,” Poilievre wrote on Twitter following the vote.
Poilievre introduced the motion in the House on Oct. 20, saying that Canada “is the only G7 country to have raised fuel taxes during this period of record high global fuel prices.”…