(Ottawa) Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre will have the opportunity next Tuesday to table a motion of censure against the Trudeau government and attempt to provoke federal elections this fall.
The Trudeau government intends to grant the Conservative Party an opposition day allowing it to table a motion of its choice as early as next week, sources confirmed to La Presse.
The move paves the way for the first political survival test for Justin Trudeau’s minority government since the NDP decided two weeks ago to tear up the support agreement it had reached with the prime minister in March 2022. A vote on the Conservative Party’s motion could take place as early as the next day, Wednesday, September 25.
In recent weeks, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has promised to table a motion of censure at the first opportunity in order to trigger a federal election that, according to him, would take on the appearance of a referendum on the carbon tax.
The Conservative Party has held a lead of between 15 and 20 points in polls for more than a year. A federal election must be held no later than October 2025, but an election could be held earlier in a minority government.
More details to come.