Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre challenged B.C. Premier David Eby to cancel the April 1 carbon tax hike at Greater Vancouver Board of Trade breakfast meeting Friday morning, and scolded business leaders for “sucking up” to government when they should be pushing back against policies that are against their own interests.
“I am announcing today that I am calling on NDP Premier David Eby and Justin Trudeau and Jagmeet Singh to cancel the April 1 carbon tax hike,” Poilievre said, to applause.On energy, Poilievre said Western Canada’s abundant natural gas, clean power grid and cold climate gives it an advantage as a liquefied natural gas producer. He pointed to the fact the U.S.
Poilievre said industry should not expect "a free ride" from government, and scolded big resource companies that have not pushed back on policies that are counterproductive to Canada's and their own interests. “We are spending twice as much as the rest of our competitor countries to build fewer homes,” he said.He would to link federal transfers to new home construction as a way to encourage quicker approval and construction timelines.