With Parliament back in session, the Liberals must shore up support for the upcoming fall budget, but were quickly back to trading blows with Conservatives across the aisle.

When politicians returned to Ottawa on Monday, they were greeted with a crowd of protesters wielding flags and signs reading: “Fuck Carney,” “globalism is communism,” and “absolute power corrupts absolutely,” to name a few. An already heavy Parliamentary security presence grew — along with the crowd — throughout the day. Inside the House of Commons, the temperature also ramped up gradually.

Liberal House Leader Steven MacKinnon started the day by highlighting what Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government has done so far — cancelling the consumer carbon price, creating the Major Projects Office, and most recently, laun

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