OTTAWA—Slamming opposition party demands as “political games,” the Carney government’s House leader said Tuesday he was “worried” about the chances its first budget will pass, as he warned there is a chance Canadians could return to the polls just six months after the election.

“We’re two weeks from the budget. I think that what I’m seeing in Parliament worries me,” Steven MacKinnon told reporters in Ottawa, accusing the Conservatives and Bloc Québécois of not taking the matter “seriously” while Canadians are looking for “certainty.”

It was the latest sign of political brinkmanship just two weeks ahead of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s highly anticipated first budget. That fiscal blueprint is expected to be a major test of confidence in the minority Liberal government as it must cour

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