Overview
- Green Party Leader Elizabeth May backed the budget after Prime Minister Mark Carney pledged to meet Canada’s Paris climate targets.
- Two New Democrats, Lori Idlout and Gord Johns, and two Conservatives, Matt Jeneroux and Shannon Stubbs, did not vote, enabling the slim margin.
- The plan outlines a near-doubling of the deficit to about C$78.3 billion to counter U.S. tariffs and fund infrastructure, housing and defence.
- Interim NDP leader Don Davies said allowing the budget to proceed was preferable to triggering another election, though he personally voted no.
- The vote approved the budget in principle, sending detailed measures to committee study and subsequent votes where amendments remain possible.