Trudeau faces non-confidence motion: MPs debate [Video]

MPs in the House of Commons are debating the Conservatives’ promised non-confidence motion today, with Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre calling for “a carbon tax election,” and a renewal of “the Canadian promise” in a 20-minute speech.

“That’s why I welcome, every single time they talk about my experience in government, is doing the exact same things that I would look to do in the future, which is to expand the opportunity, expand the promise of this country,” Poilievre said. “But that promise, after nine years of the NDP-Liberal prime minister, is broken.”

Poilievre first promised this motion weeks ago, after NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh’s announcement he’d scrapped the supply-and-confidence agreement with the Liberals. The end of the pact meant that, for the first time in two and a half years, NDP support of the government was no longer a foregone conclusion. However, Singh and Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet killed …