NDP to back Conservative motion calling for carbon tax pause on all home heating fuels
New Democrats are planning to vote in favour of a Conservative motion to exempt all home heating fuels from the federal carbon tax.
“The panicked reaction of Liberals a few days ago, it seemed to be tied to electoral chances more than anything else,” the party’s House leader Peter Julian said Thursday.
The Liberals have been facing increasing political pressure to extend a carbon tax exemption to fuels such as natura; gas and propane after announcing a three-year exemption for home heating oil last week.
The government has said that the pause is meant to give Canadians who use oil to heat their homes more time to switch to subsidized electric heat pumps.
Featured VideoConservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre needled Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over his limited carbon tax pause, adding that a Conservative motion would extend it to all Canadians.
But Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has accused the Liberals of creating “two classes” of Canadians by exempting home heating oil and not other fuels.
The Conservatives have put forward a motion calling on the government to pause collection of the tax on all home heating fuels. The House will vote on the non-binding motion on Monday.
The text of the motion calls on the House of Commons to apply the tax break “to all forms of home heating.”
Poilievre said Wednesday that it’s a compromise meant to allow Canadians to vote on the issue in the next election.
The NDP has been calling on the government to remove the GST from home heating fuels.
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