Tue May 31, 2022 – 8:04 pm EDT
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) MP and leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre claims a “technical” issue prevented him from voting for a motion brought forward by a fellow MP calling for an end to Canada’s COVID travel mandates.
In a statement on Twitter, Poilievre said he opposes the “unscientific vaccine mandates,” adding he has been “opposed them from day one and I will oppose them until they are all removed.”
“I attempted to vote for MP Melissa Lantsman’s motion ending all COVID travel restrictions. I was voting remotely as I was in Thunder Bay, but the voting application did not register my vote as a result of a technical problem,” Poilievre said.
“I will be raising a point of order to alert the speaker to the issue and asking for my vote to be properly counted as favouring the end of these rules.”
Yesterday, the Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, with the help of the NDP, voted against a motion from Lantsman calling for the return of pre-pandemic rules and service levels for travel. As a result, the motion failed to pass by a tally of
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