Poilievre turns to Parliament to force Trudeau to meet with premiers on the carbon tax [Video]

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is asking MPs to compel Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to sit down with the premiers to discuss the federal carbon tax at a first ministers’ meeting.

Poilievre tabled a motion in the House of Commons that demands Trudeau “convene a carbon tax emergency meeting” with Canada’s 13 provincial and territorial leaders to address the “ongoing carbon tax crisis and the financial burden it places on Canadians.”

It also asks that Trudeau accept “plans for provinces to opt-out of the federal carbon tax to pursue other responsible ideas to lower emissions” — an ongoing request of some premiers who maintain they can fight climate change in their jurisdictions through measures other than a tax.

Trudeau has so far rebuffed calls to meet with the premiers on the issue.

Last week, in an interview with CBC Radio’s The Current, Trudeau said he met with the premiers in 2016 and a pan-Canadian climate change planwas agreed to then. The plan included a price …