The Liberals and Conservatives once again clashed on the capital gains inclusion tax rate during question period on Wednesday, a day after the House of Commons approved the previously introduced changes and are set to go into effect on June 25. “Will she amend her bill to say that no one who is in the bottom 99.87 per cent of income earners will pay any new tax increase?” Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre asked.

“First, the Leader of the official Opposition doesn't even understand how the capital gains inclusion rate works — That's a problem. Second, the Leader of the official Opposition disavows his own words in this House about capital gains,” Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland replied.

After government house leader Steven MacKinnon stepped in to claim that the Conservative leader has been “skulking around” for the past 20 years without “much contact with the outside world,” Poilievre responded by quipping that “I see they’ve pulled the finance minister off the ice.”

Poilievre also mockingly asked the Liberals if they were “okay over there” and said that they were “a little wacko,” before correcting himself and saying that he “won’t call them wacko” because it was “unparliamentary.” Previously, Poilievre was historically ejected from the House of Commons after calling Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his drug policies “wacko.”

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