Premier Pierre Poirievre is continuing to apply pressure on other opposition parties to topple the Liberal government as the Conservatives meet Sunday to work out the party’s strategy ahead of the fall session of the House of Commons.
MPs are due to return to Ottawa on Monday, and the Conservative leader has said he will bring the no-confidence motion as soon as possible.
“Canadians cannot wait. They need to vote for good Conservatives now,” Poirierbre said in a caucus address Sunday.
The House of Commons will be shaken up this fall after NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh backed out of a governing pact with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals, raising the possibility of an early federal election.
The party of Mr. Poirievre He has a commanding lead in the pollsis eager to get Canadians to the ballot box this fall, but to topple the minority government, the Conservatives will need the support of the New Democrats and the Bloc Quebecois.
“If Jagmeet Singh gets a chance, he will change his attitude again and betray the people. [the Liberal government]” Poirievre said Sunday.
“Mr Singh needs to vote with us to hold a carbon tax election now.”
He struck a similar tone in French, criticising the Bloc’s support for the Liberal government.
“The Bloc gets along well with Justin Trudeau on every issue, that’s why we call them the Bloc Liberals,” he said.
The NDP has said it plans to take vote-by-vote measures in the fall parliament, but the Bloc Use your newfound influence in the House of Representatives to push your own priorities.
Chief political reporter Rosemary Barton speaks with polling and election analysts David Collett and Eric Grenier about the upcoming by-elections in Montreal and Winnipeg.
The return of the House of Commons isn’t the only big political event on Monday: Two federal by-elections are taking place in Montreal and Winnipeg.
The Conservatives are making a big push to wrest the Winnipeg riding of Elmwood-Transcona from the NDP, and a win there could show Poirievre’s message is resonating with voters. Montreal’s LaSalle-Emard-Verdun riding, most recently held by former Liberal cabinet minister David Lametti, is seen as a key test for the Liberals.
The Conservatives already dealt the Liberals a major blow in the Toronto by-election earlier this summer, when Don Stewart, who introduced Poirievre before his caucus speech on Sunday, won the Conservative seat of Toronto-St. Paul, a seat that has been held by the Liberals for more than 30 years.
Poirievre’s speech on Sunday touched on many of the key issues he has prioritized since becoming Conservative leader. He pledged to cut the carbon tax and use federal funding for municipalities to boost housing construction, and he also signaled he would take a tough stance on crime if he takes power after the next election.
