OTTAWA - The latest Conservative Party effort to mislead Canadians came with their demand that the NDP end their Confidence and Supply Agreement with the Liberals. The Conservative leader said that would trigger a fall election.
Green Party leader Elizabeth May asked, "Can Poilievre add?"
There are 155 Liberals in Parliament and, with a guaranteed 24 votes from the NDP under their deal, it is true that their combined numbers ensure the Trudeau administration will always survive a confidence vote.
But twice in the last year, all NDP MPs voted with Conservatives against the carbon tax, so with 24 NDP votes and 119 Conservatives all voting together in a whipped vote, how did the government survive? Easy. The votes needed for the carbon pricing climate action came from 2 Greens and 32 Bloc Quebecois MPs. So 155 Liberals, plus Greens and Bloc MPs equals 189. And that leaves out the possibility of how independent MPs will vote in future.
"What does Poilievre hope to achieve with this bad version of new math? Does he have, as Stephen Harper had on November 28, 2005, a deal with the Bloc and NDP to work together to bring down a minority Liberal government?," said May. "Not any sign of that, so this is just cheap and silly. Unless Skippy skipped all his math classes, this public display of bad math skills seems a bit, well, odd."
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