'Trudeau can end it all': Conservative carbon tax filibuster stretches into second night
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With no signs either side is ready to retreat, the marathon voting session in the House of Commons has stretched into its second day, after MPs stayed up all night rejecting Conservative attempts to defeat government spending plans over the Liberals' refusal to scrap the carbon tax.
With no signs either side is ready to retreat, the marathon voting session in the House of Commons has stretched into its second day after MPs stayed up all night rejecting Conservative attempts to defeat government spending plans over the Liberals' refusal to scrap the carbon tax.
"We are just about halfway through this axe the carbon tax voting marathon… we have successfully killed a day of government business. This is one less day that Justin Trudeau will have to implement his destructive agenda," said Conservative House Leader Andrew Scheer, speaking to reporters just before noon on Friday. "That's what this is all about."
After starting at 6 p.m. ET Thursday, as of 6:05 p.m. ET on Friday MPs had made their way through 112 of the 120 "opposed votes" on various line items from the supplementary estimates voting non-stop for more than 24 hours.
Once these motions are disposed of, the Commons still needs to move through several actual government spending items, bringing the total votes to 137, which has close Hill watchers estimating this saga could stretch late into Friday.
"Trudeau can end it all. He can stop this right now if he chooses," Scheer said, a suggestion Trudeau unabashedly dismissed, telling CTV News as he dipped out of the chamber for a reprieve that he has no intention to back down.
"No, we're not axing the tax," Trudeau said.
It's nearly noon, the voting continues, on now to "opposed vote" No. 84 and Scheer just said Trudeau could "stop this all" if he wanted. Trudeau, just prior: "No, we're not axing the tax." https://t.co/FqnqOohBAq
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