Mr. Speaker, my constituents have told me in no uncertain terms that they want a carbon tax election. There is only one person left who prevents that by keeping this Prime Minister in power, and that person is the leader of the NDP. That is the same leader of the NDP who made a big stunt when he told Canadians he had ripped up his coalition deal with the Liberals. It was a perfectly timed scam on the voters in Elmwood—Transcona, right before a by-election.
The leader of the NDP even went so far as to say, “The fact is, the Liberals are too weak, too selfish and too beholden to corporate interests to fight for people”. If the Liberals are so weak, why has the leader of the NDP voted for the carbon tax over 24 times? Why does he support his inflationary deficits, including wasteful spending like the Prime Minister's arrive scam app? Why does the leader of the NDP support the Liberals' soft-on-crime policies that have led to a 50% increase in violent crime?
Every day this Prime Minister remains in power is because of the leader of the NDP. It is time for the leader of the NDP to stand with Canadians instead of the Liberal government. Call a carbon tax election.