As Canadian MPs are set to vote on a Conservative motion that is trying to topple Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government, more such votes are coming.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre tabled a motion before the House of Commons on Tuesday and MPs from the four main political parties spent hours debating it.
The motion simply states: “The House has no confidence in the Prime Minister and the Government.”
The motion is expected to be put up for a vote Wednesday afternoon after question period.
It will likely get defeated since both the NDP and the Bloc Québécois indicated last week that they will not support it.
Meanwhile, the Conservatives are planning to put forward two more non-confidence motions, one of which will be introduced on Thursday.
One motion includes comments from NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-François Blanchet, criticizing the Liberal government and ending with “the House declare it has no confidence in the government.”
The second motion blames the Liberal government for “doubled housing costs, taxed food, punished work, unleashed crime” and calls it the “most centralizing government in Canadian history.”
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If a non-confidence motion were to pass, the government would fall and a snap election would be triggered. The minority Liberals need the support of at least one other party in the House of Commons to survive such votes, or pass any legislation.
Singh said that the NDP will vote against the non-confidence motion, saying that they won’t let Poilievre “call the shots.”
“We’re going to vote [sic] against Conservative cuts and against the Conservative motion,” Singh said Tuesday.
He argued that the Tories have a track record of cuts to health care, noting that Poilievre voted against the dental-care program for low-income Canadians and the national pharmacare program that were agreed upon under the Liberal—NDP deal. The NDP pulled out of that deal on Sept. 4.
Meanwhile, the Bloc Québécois said Tuesday it wants to give the Liberal minority government a chance for now, and that it stands ready to negotiate on important issues.
“We are in a situation where there will be other chances to bring down the government, so we’re saying let’s give the government a chance,” Bloc Québécois MP Alain Therrien said in French during a House of Commons debate Tuesday.
Despite the motion not expected to pass, the upcoming vote serves as a first test for Trudeau and his government since the collapse of their supply-and-confidence deal with the NDP.
It comes after a tumultuous summer for the Liberals, which saw two major byelection losses on top of the NDP withdrawing support from the supply-and-confidence agreement earlier this month.
Meanwhile, support for Trudeau and his Liberal government has hit a “new low,” Ipsos polling exclusive to Motorcycle accident toronto today shows.
The Conservatives will get another opposition day on Thursday, when they are expected to table their second non-confidence motion. The vote for that will come next week on Tuesday.
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