Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre challenges Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to defend carbon pricing policy during a televised "emergency meeting" with the country's premiers.

Today Tuesday, the Conservatives presented a motion demanding that Trudeau sit down with the provincial and territorial leaders within five weeks; MPs are expected to vote on the motion on Wednesday.

Poilievre said he believes Trudeau is "very afraid" to hold the televised meeting because he knows that the Liberal government will lose the debate on carbon pricing, "Trudeau is hiding".

He added, "There will be a carbon tax election, and whether Trudeau is hiding from me or not, he will have to face me in the carbon tax election."

The Conservatives insist that the carbon price makes life less expensive for Canadians, while the Liberals say their rebate system means most Canadians will eventually have more money at the end of the day.

Liberal MP Adam Van Koeverden responded to Poilievre's motion in the House of Commons by describing him as a "gas puppet" campaigning for Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and oil and gas companies.

The Quebec caucus expressed its outrage at spending yet another day in the "Conservative tax bubble," accusing the opposition of spreading "strange" lies about this policy.

Trudeau has so far rejected their initiatives, saying he believes premiers prefer to "score political gains" from the dispute rather than offer viable alternatives.

Energy Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said on Tuesday that it is difficult to have a conversation with premiers who have no plan to address climate change.

On the other hand, the New Democrats accuse the Liberals of treating carbon pricing as the "be-all and end-all" of climate policy.

Laurel Collins, an NDP MP, said: "While the opposition leader wants to ignore the climate crisis, the Prime Minister wants to use it to divide Canadians."

She added, "He does not see fighting the climate crisis as an opportunity to unite people and face this existential crisis, but rather uses it as a political wedge."