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Good morning. Get ready to start the clock on Canada ’s election showdown – more on that below, along with the return of a stolen Winston Churchill portrait and the best time to cancel your Air Canada flight. But first:on Monday, and the countdown to a federal election begins. With the NDP no longer supporting the minority Liberal government, a fatal non-confidence vote is pretty much guaranteed – the only question is when it will all go down.
There are different kinds of confidence votes. Some are automatic: The government falls if it cannot pass money bills, such as budgets. But the opposition parties are allotted a set number of days – seven or eight in each period of roughly three months – when they can put forward their own motions, including a non-confidence motion. Most of those days belong to the Official Opposition, now the Conservatives.
The Liberals can gamble that the NDP and Bloc don’t want an election just yet. The Bloc has signalled they’re in no rush; they’re doing okay right now in the polls, and they probably want to take a few more whacks at Pierre Poilievre and try to extract a few more things from Justin Trudeau. The NDP’s pharmacare bill hasn’t passed the Senate yet, and it would look stupid to let that die when it was at the centre of the Liberal-NDP deal. Also, there are upcoming provincial elections in B.C.
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