Published Nov 7, 2023 at 6:01amNDP Leader Jagmeet Singh speaks to reporters in the foyer of the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Monday, Nov. 6, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
A day after the New Democrats backed a Conservative-initiated proposal to extend the three-year “pause” in applying the federal carbon tax to cover “all forms of home heating fuel,” the party is set to devote its first — and, most likely, only — opposition day of the fall sitting to its call for the government to drop the GST from heating bills, “make eco-energy retrofits and heat pumps free and easy to access for low-income and middle-class Canadians” and cover the extra cost “by putting in...
Debate on the non-binding motion is set to kick off this morning and continue throughout the day, with an on-the-record vote to follow tomorrow afternoon.