Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre said the Liberals’ carbon price and the economy will remain their top focus when Parliament resumes this week.
He painted a dystopian picture during a speech to his parliamentary caucus on Sunday morning, saying the Liberal government’s plans to raise the price would trigger a “nuclear winter” for the economy.
He says further increases would cause widespread hunger and malnutrition and force older people to turn off the heating in their homes just to stay afloat.
He argues that inflation would also skyrocket and cause a collapse of the domestic economy.
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The Conservatives are the last of the major parties to hold a fall strategy session after the Liberals, NDP and Bloc Québécois met last week.
Poilievre has maintained his party’s lead in the polls throughout the summer and is preparing to make another attempt to oust the Liberal government as early as this week.
All parties are adjusting their fall plans after NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh ended the deal that guaranteed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government would remain in power.
Poilievre has vowed to table a vote of no confidence at the first opportunity, and that could happen as early as Monday.
The Conservatives would likely need support from both the NDP and the Bloc to pass the motion, which seems unlikely.
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