MPs started a marathon, all-night voting session in the House of Commons Thursday night as the Opposition Conservatives fulfilled a promise to stall the Liberal government’s legislation with an avalanche of votes unless it scraps parts of its carbon tax.
“You will have no rest until the tax is gone,” Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said in a message to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Liberal MPs Wednesday as he outlined his strategy to keep MPs sitting in the House over Christmas.
The Tories are forcing delays by prompting 135 votes in the House, most of them on the government’s estimates. The party
