Will Carney’s budget trigger election? Liberals say that’s up to opposition
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Steven MacKinnon made the comments as opposition parties have been laying out their demands for the upcoming federal budget, as well as their various red lines for supporting it.
Opposition parties are being “cavalier” about the possibility of triggering another federal election, says Liberal House Leader Steven MacKinnon — something he believes Canadians do not want.
MacKinnon made the comments Wednesday as opposition parties publicly laid out their demands for the upcoming federal budget, as well as their various red lines for supporting it.
The minority Liberals need at least three additional votes to pass the budget, which is treated as a confidence vote. If it fails, the Parliament will be dissolved and a new election will be triggered — just over six months after the last one.
“We have a minority Parliament, but we do believe we have a mandate,” MacKinnon told reporters ahead of the Liberal caucus meeting in Ottawa.
“If there has to be an election, we will confidently take our plan to the people, but we don’t think an election is necessary and we think … the opposition parties are, in my view, being very, very cavalier about the country’s future.”
Prime Minister Mark Carney is due to meet privately with Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre Wednesday afternoon to discuss the budget, the Conservatives confirmed.
Carney will then deliver a primetime address to Canadians, laying out the government’s priorities for the budget, his first as prime minister, which will be presented by Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne on Nov. 4.
The Conservatives said Poilievre will lay out “his case to table an affordable budget for an affordable Canada” in his meeting with Carney.
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