Conservative Leader Pierre Poirievre will get his first chance next week to try to topple the Liberal government.
Next week, the Conservative Party will be allocated an “opposition day” or “supply day” where opposition business will take priority over government business, a spokesperson for the office of Government General’s Representative Karina Gould told CBC News.
A vote on the Conservative motion could take place as soon as Wednesday, the spokesman said.
Poirievre said he would table a motion of no confidence in the Liberal party as soon as possible.
Poirievre is Leading in the pollsis pressuring the other two main opposition parties to topple Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government and force early elections, but it is not clear at this point whether the NDP or the Bloc Quebecois will join Poirievre in pushing for early elections.
The New Democrats have said they will take a one-vote approach to ousting the Liberals. But several bills the New Democrats pushed through as part of a now-dissolved governing pact with the Liberals are still pending in parliament. A vote to oust the Liberals would effectively kill those bills.
The coalition has also signaled it plans to use its influence in the current minority government to push through its own priorities.
The Bloc Quebecois pulled off a stunning upset in the LaSalle-Emard-Verdun by-election last night. Bloc Leader Yves-François Blanchet appears on Power & Politics to discuss the win and how the party will vote in the expected vote of no confidence in the minority Liberal government. Blanchet tells P&P that Poirievre is also no better for Quebec than Trudeau.
Coalition Leader Yves-François Blanchet told CBC News Network’s Power & Politics that he will not vote with the Conservatives on next week’s no-confidence motion.
“They have to be very, very crafty and very good at writing. [the motion] “If they want us to read it all the way through, it’ll probably just be a show,” Blanchett told host David Cochran.
“I would not replace Justin Trudeau with Pierre Poirievre. I believe that for Quebec, Pierre Poirievre is no less important than Trudeau.”
Blanchette told reporters on Monday that she doesn’t expect the current parliamentary session to last that long, and on Tuesday said no party would try to force a no-confidence motion after Halloween because that would bring the election too close to Christmas, but suggested things could escalate in mid-October.
“I think mid-October will be a huge hot spot,” he said.
“We have a month to execute things, negotiate, get things done… so it’s going to be a very careful few days of watching what’s going on.”
