The "two finger" salute by Ken McDonald with a smirk as he gave his Nay for thee vote.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfo...20carbon%20tax.
He knew what he was doing.
No. 416 Opposition Motion (Carbon taxes) Yea Negatived October 4, 2023
No. 197 Opposition Motion (Tax exemption on home heating fuel) Yea Negatived October 24, 2022
Just a reminder on the Avalon MP's voting record, he was for Conservative opposition motions until he got what he wanted from the Liberal side, a regional exemption that benefited him politically.
McDonald's own words just a month ago.
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Ken McDonald, MP for Newfoundland and Labrador's Avalon riding, voted with the federal Conservatives on Wednesday on a non-binding motion to repeal the carbon tax, the only member of the Liberal, NDP or Bloc Québécois caucuses to do so. Speaking with CBC News on Thursday, he said he believes the policy will cost the Liberals votes in the next election.
"Everywhere I go, people come up to me and say, you know, 'We're losing faith in the Liberal party," McDonald said in an interview with the CBC's Power & Politics.
"I think they will lose seats not just in Newfoundland, not just in Atlantic Canada, but indeed right across the country if they don't get a grasp on this the way that I think they should.… And if if an election were called today, I'm not sure if the Liberal party would actually form the government."
"He's not, because he's so entrenched in it," McDonald said. "And I get it, where he came from, and his whole idea of making a big difference in climate change, but you can't do it all overnight. You can't make it more expensive on people than what they can handle. And that's exactly what's happening right now."
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