Poilievre Calls for Carbon Tax Pause on All Forms of Home Heating

The Tories’ motion calls on Ottawa to freeze the federal carbon tax on all forms of home heating until the next election.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre asks a question during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Oct. 3, 2023. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he will soon put forward a motion to extend the home heating carbon tax exemption to “all Canadians everywhere.”

“I am announcing today that the common-sense Conservatives have put forward a motion in the House of Commons, extending the pause on home heating to all Canadians everywhere,” Mr. Poilievre said in a speech to his caucus in Ottawa on Nov. 1.