{"id":938,"date":"2024-08-30T14:25:42","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T18:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenparty.ca\/article\/pierre-poilievres-math-challenge-can-he-add\/"},"modified":"2025-02-18T01:27:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T06:27:28","slug":"pierre-poilievres-math-challenge-can-he-add","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.greenparty.ca\/en\/news\/pierre-poilievres-math-challenge-can-he-add","title":{"rendered":"Pierre Poilievre&#8217;s Math Challenge &#8211; Can He Add?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA &#8211;&nbsp;The latest Conservative Party effort to mislead Canadians came with their demand that the NDP end their Confidence and Supply Agreement with the Liberals.&nbsp; The Conservative leader said that would trigger a fall election.<\/p><p>Green Party leader Elizabeth May asked, &quot;Can Poilievre add?&quot;<\/p><p>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.<\/p><p>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?&nbsp; Easy. The votes needed for the carbon pricing climate action came from 2 Greens and 32 Bloc Quebecois MPs.&nbsp; So 155 Liberals, plus Greens and Bloc MPs equals 189. And that leaves out the possibility of how independent MPs will vote in future.<\/p><p>&quot;What does Poilievre hope to achieve with this bad version of new math?&nbsp; 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?,&quot; said May. &quot;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.&quot;<\/p><p><strong>#####<\/strong><\/p><p><strong>For more information or to arrange an interview :&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p><p><strong>Fabrice Lachance Nov\u00e9<\/strong><\/p><p><strong>Press secretary<\/strong><\/p><p><strong>514-463-0021<\/strong><\/p><p><strong>media@greenparty.ca<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA &#8211;&nbsp;The latest Conservative Party effort to mislead Canadians came with their demand that the NDP end their Confidence and Supply Agreement with the Liberals.&nbsp; The Conservative leader said that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false},"location":[33],"section":[],"class_list":["post-938","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry","location-ottawa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenparty.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenparty.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenparty.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenparty.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenparty.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=938"},{"taxonomy":"section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenparty.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/section?post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}