US EditionLiberal budget clears second confidence hurdle as MPs head into break week
The government won 307 votes to 30 against a motion to reject the budget, relying on Conservative support and some opposition MPs to maintain confidence.
- On Nov. 7, 2025, Conservative MPs helped the minority Liberal government survive a second confidence vote on the budget, with the House of Commons recording 307 votes against the Bloc Québécois motion and 30 in favour.
- Following the budget's release on Tuesday, Alberta MP Matt Jeneroux announced he will resign while Nova Scotia MP Chris d'Entremont quit the Conservative caucus to sit with the Liberals.
- On Thursday, the Bloc Québécois and NDP voted with the government to defeat a Conservative motion, and the NDP's seven MPs had not yet decided on a similar Bloc motion.
- Narrow margins mean the government cannot safely ignore opposition support, leaving the Liberals two votes shy of a majority threshold as the budget is set for a vote during the week of Nov. 17.
- This report was first published Nov. 7, 2025, with a photo showing the Canadian flag on the West Block of Parliament Hill, Ottawa, on Nov. 3, 2025.
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Liberal Government Survives Second Confidence Vote on Budget
The Liberal government survived a second budget confidence vote on Nov. 7, after a Bloc Québécois amendment calling on the House of Commons to reject the budget was voted down. The amendment to the budget failed 307 to 30, with the Bloc, NDP, and Green Party voting in favour of it, and the Liberals and Conservatives voting against it. The Bloc’s motion called for the House to “reject” the government’s budget statement because it would “hurt Queb…
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The RecordPoilievre’s Conservatives struggling to stay united, source says, as Carney government survives a second budget vote
The House of Commons voted 307 to 30 to defeat a Bloc Québécois motion that called on MPs to reject the Liberal budget
The Bloc Québécois had tabled a motion to reject the budget presented on Tuesday.
The Carney government survives a second vote of confidence. The amendment on the budget proposed by the Bloc Québécois was rejected on Friday.
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