Tories Introduce New Non-Confidence Motion, Bloc and NDP Unlikely to Support

The Conservative Party has introduced a new non-confidence motion to take down the minority Liberal government, a day after a previous motion to do so failed in the House of Commons. On Sept. 25, the Tories’ first non-confidence motion was defeated, receiving 211 “nay” votes and 120 “yea” votes, with the Liberals, NDP, Bloc Québécois, and the Greens voting against, and the Conservatives voting in favour. The motion had simply read, “The House has no confidence in the Prime Minister and the Government.” The new motion, introduced on Sept. 26 reads, “After nine years, the government has doubled housing costs, taxed food, punished work, unleashed crime and is the most centralized government in Canadian history, the house has lost confidence in the government.” It also calls for Canadians to be given the option to “axe the tax, build the homes, fix the budget and stop the crime.”...