US EditionCarney defends green pledge to get Budget 2025 passed in narrow vote
Budget 2025 passed by 170-168 votes with Green Leader Elizabeth May's support; includes emission targets and aims to position Canada as an energy superpower.
- On Nov. 17, 2025, Prime Minister Mark Carney defended a climate pledge as Budget 2025 passed the House of Commons by 170 to 168, narrowly securing the spending plan.
- On climate, Carney confirmed he defended making a commitment to carbon emission targets to pass the spending plan and said Canada will respect its Paris commitments, with a nature strategy coming soon.
- Four MPs abstained—two Conservatives and two from the NDP—and Green Party Leader Elizabeth May added her support late in the day, including Lori Idlout, Gord Johns, Shannon Stubbs and Matt Jeneroux.
- Passage averted a snap election, with Interim NDP Leader Don Davies saying he avoided an election while not supporting the budget, leaving Parliament in a precarious position.
- Policy watchers noted tensions between climate commitments and an energy expansion plan, with critics warning the budget runs a deficit near $80 billion and cuts 40,000 jobs, while aiming for $60 billion in operational savings.
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Carney government’s anti-oil sentiment no longer in doubt
From the Fraser Institute By Kenneth P. Green The Carney government, which on Monday survived a confidence vote in Parliament by the skin of its teeth, recently released a “second tranche of nation-building projects” blessed by the Major Projects Office. To have a chance to survive Canada’s otherwise oppressive regulatory gauntlet, projects must get on this Caesar-like-thumbs-up-thumbs-down list. The first tranche of major projects released in S…
GREEN: Carney government’s anti-oil sentiment no longer in doubt
The Carney government, which on Monday survived a confidence vote in Parliament by the skin of its teeth, recently released a “second tranche of nation-building projects” blessed by the Major Projects Office. To have a chance to survive Canada’s otherwise oppressive regulatory gauntlet, projects must get on this Caesar-like-thumbs-up-thumbs-down list.
Nipissing-Timiskaming MP Pauline Rochefort was not concerned about federal budget being passed
Canadians avoided a return to the polls as MPs on Monday night voted in favour of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s budget, barely. By a vote of 170-168 the budget passed meaning no snap election as all Liberals and Green Party Leader Elizabeth May voted in support.
Why two NDP MPs abstained from the federal budget vote, and what comes next
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first budget was passed on Monday in the House of Commons by a narrow vote. Interim NDP Leader Don Davies explains why they couldn't back the budget, and what he says the government should do next.
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