Pierre Poilievre pushes for carbon-tax election [Video]

OTTAWA –

Pierre Poilievre returned to Ottawa on Thursday after the holidays with a familiar demand for Justin Trudeau: call a carbon-tax election.

Neither Trudeau’s announcement that he plans to resign as Liberal leader nor U.S. president-elect Donald Trump’s recent rhetoric about using “economic force” to take over Canada seem to have swayed the Tory leader, who said the ballot-box question — and even his opponent — remain the same.

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“It’s ironic, we have an American president who’s threatening tariffs on Canada and we have a Canadian government that is threatening even more devastating tariffs on Canada in the form of a carbon tax,” he said.

Poilievre added that Trump would likely be happy to see the consumer price on carbon rise in April, as scheduled, because “he’ll be on the phone with our trucking companies, our …