(Ottawa) The Conservatives are ready to put on ice the obstruction they have caused and which has paralyzed the House of Commons for approximately two months in order to table a motion of censure in the government.
Posted at 3:11 p.m.
Updated at 6:28 p.m.
In addition to seeking to overthrow the Trudeau government, the motion of censure concocted by the Conservatives attacks New Democratic leader Jagmeet Singh.
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Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada Pierre Poilievre
We want to see if the latter will “once again bow down to Justin Trudeau to protect this bad government,” explained MP Luc Berthold in a press scrum on Friday afternoon.
The motion echoes comments made by Jagmeet Singh, including that “Liberals are too weak, too selfish and too beholden to corporate interests to fight for people.”
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NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh
It concludes as follows: “the House agrees with the leader of the NDP and the House proclaims that it has lost confidence in the Prime Minister and the government.”
The leader of the Liberal government in the House, Karina Gould, opened the door to holding three opposition days next week, Monday, Tuesday and Thursday.
“I have communicated to the opposition parties the motion requiring unanimous consent that we intend to propose in order to suspend the debate on motions of privilege,” she said Thursday.
If this proposal obtains unanimous consent, the Conservatives and New Democrats could hold their opposition days.
“We have given our consent to the government so that the opposition days can take place as provided for by the regulations,” noted Bloc parliamentary leader Alain Therrien.
There remains the New Democratic Party (NDP), which had not yet clarified its intentions as of Friday evening.
The privilege motion which is currently monopolizing parliamentary work concerns the disclosure of documents relating to the green fund, the management of which has been severely criticized.
A dysfunctional Chamber since the end of September
The work of the House of Commons has been blocked since September 26 due to a debate on a Conservative privilege motion which takes precedence over almost everything else.
The paralysis was interrupted for a few hours, Wednesday and Thursday, thanks to a fleeting alliance of a few hours between the Liberals and the New Democrats.
Both parties used procedural tactics to pass the two-month GST holiday bill from December 14 to February 15.
Adopted Thursday evening, the legislative measure must be approved by the Senate before coming into force.
The conservative motion
Considering that the leader of the New Democratic Party said that he had “broken” the agreement of support and confidence that he had concluded with the Liberal government,
Considering the NDP leader said “Liberals are too weak, too selfish and too beholden to corporate interests to fight for people,”
Considering that the leader of the NDP declared that “the Liberal government will always give in to corporate greed and will always intervene to ensure that unions have no power”, in response to the Liberal Minister of Labor’s request for referral to the Canadian Industrial Relations Board ordering Teamsters Canada Rail Conference and ILWU 514 workers back to work, violating their right to strike;
Therefore, the House agrees with the leader of the NDP and the House proclaims that it has lost confidence in the Prime Minister and the government.
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