{"id":387907,"date":"2025-11-18T16:13:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T16:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/387907\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T16:13:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T16:13:20","slug":"liberal-budget-survives-in-tight-house-of-commons-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/387907\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberal budget survives in tight House of Commons vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of Parliament voted 170 to 168 on the confidence motion that could have toppled the minority government and triggered a federal election<\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA \u2014 Prime Minister Mark Carney\u2019s government narrowly passed a crucial budget vote Monday, with four MPs abstaining and Green Party Leader Elizabeth May backing the budget.<\/p>\n<p>Members of Parliament voted 170 to 168 on the confidence motion that could have toppled the minority government and triggered a federal election.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative MPs Shannon Stubbs and Matt Jeneroux, as well as NDP MPs Lori Idlout and Gord Johns, were recorded as abstentions.<\/p>\n<p>Just hours before the vote, May said she would back the budget because Carney offered assurances he&#8217;s committed to meeting Canada&#8217;s climate targets in the Paris agreement.<\/p>\n<p>The federal government will now have to introduce a budget implementation bill in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Carney heads off later today to the United Arab Emirates for a stop before travelling to Johannesburg for the G20 summit.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 18, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Members of Parliament voted 170 to 168 on the confidence motion that could have toppled the minority government&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":387908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-387907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115571589539545727","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}