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Carney’s Budget Faces Final Confidence Vote as Liberals Seek Last-Minute Support

A defeat would topple the minority government and force a snap election.

Finance and National Revenue Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne is applauded by members of the Liberal party as he delivers the federal budget speech in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Tuesday, November 4, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Prime Minister Mark Carney (right) and Minister of Finance and National Revenue Francois-Philippe Champagne hold up copies of the budget as they pose for a photograph before the tabling of the federal budget on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on November 4. (AP)
Former central bank chief Mark Carney led Canada's Liberals to victory in April 2025 elections after longtime prime minister Justin Trudeau resigned

Overview

  • The Liberals need two opposition votes or abstentions to pass the budget, holding 170 seats with the Speaker voting only in a tie.
  • Conservatives and the Bloc say they will oppose the plan, while NDP sources say up to five of seven MPs may vote against and interim leader Don Davies and Gordon Johns are expected to abstain, with Alexandre Boulerice a possible abstention.
  • Green Party MP Elizabeth May says she is in talks with the government and has not decided how she will vote.
  • The package pledges more than C$140 billion in new spending over five years, offset by about C$60 billion in internal savings, and projects a 2025–26 deficit of C$78.3 billion.
  • Carney casts the plan as a bold response to economic headwinds and U.S. tariffs he says could reduce GDP by about 1.8 percentage points, while polls show little public appetite for another election.