Monday November 17, 2025 | OTTAWA, ON [Reporting from VICTORIA, BC | Posted at 5:21 pm PT]
by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends
The final vote results in the House of Commons today on the Budget 2025 bill was final around 7 pm ET (4 pm PT) as 170 in favour, 168 against.
All Liberal MPs voted in favour of the budget. But they can’t gloat over this win, it was won amidst a great deal of uncertainty and by a very slim margin.
The slim win is more than political brinksmanship. Most political pundits point out that political tensions are real in the country and that Canadians businesses and households are feeling intense uncertainty about the economy and how progress might be reflected in governance.
Who voted against:
All the Conservatives voted against (though with a technical glitch around two votes — by the House Leader and Caucus chair who claimed technical difficulties even though they were in the House) as did the 22 Bloc Quebecois MPs.
Of the seven NDP MPs, five voted no: Don Davies (leader), Alexandre Boulerice, Leah Gazan (remote vote), Jenny Kwan, and Heather McPherson;
Who abstained:
Gord Johns abstained (not rising from his seat in the House); Lori Idlout first voted no remotely (even though she was in the building) then changed to abstaining.
One Conservative MP — Shannon Stubbs – abstained — on approved medical reasons. Another Conservative MP Matt Jeneroux had recently resigned and did not vote (even though he is still in caucus).
Green vote:
Elizabeth May earlier today said she would vote for the federal Liberal budget and in fact she did (getting a few nods from Liberal cabinet ministers); May had previously said she would be voting against the budget, but that she was open to negotiating with the Liberal government.
She was reported as saying that she is trusting Prime Minister Carney that he supports the 2030 Climate Change Accord (the primary goal is to limit global warming to well below 2°C, preferably to 1.5° compared to pre-industrial levels.
NDP comment:
The budget “fails to meet the moment or address transformational change”, said NDP Leader Don Davies in a scrum following the vote. He called it a Conservative budget. He said it fails on the environmental side of things as well as for Indigenous peoples.
He declared that Canadians do not want an election right now. No one disputes that.
“We have decided to put the interests of the country first but to help prevent an election,” said Davies.
“New Democrats are choosing stability over political games,” said Davies in the media session held around 7:10 pm ET (4:10 pm PT).
“We have Donald Trump still menacing our country,” said Davies, as one of several reasons to avoid heading into an election at this time.
“People want parliament to work,” said Davies, emphasizing the tone that former leader Jack Layton set for the NDP in the House of Commons.
The NDP caucused as late as today, said Davies. Davies said that the Liberals did not accept any of the NDP suggestions for revising the budget.
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