Tories threaten to table thousands of amendments and delay rise of House of Commons | CityNews Calgary

The official Opposition is threatening to delay authorities work and maintain up billions of {dollars} in spending if the Liberal authorities doesn’t drastically revise its carbon-pricing plan.

The Conservatives are delivering a style of their plan with the introduction of as many as 20,000 amendments to an 11-page authorities invoice that goals to create sustainable jobs as a part of the transition to a net-zero emissions economic system.

The pure sources committee is about to undergo the amendments, which the Tories imagine might take months to vote on individually.

The Opposition needs the federal carbon-pricing plan faraway from all dwelling heating for households, farmers and First Nations.

The Tories are additionally eyeing amendments that would delay passage of laws to implement measures within the authorities’s fall financial assertion.

The $20.8 billion in new spending over 5 years contains initiatives to spice up the housing provide by way of rental models and reasonably priced houses.

This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Dec. 6, 2023.

The Canadian Press