OTTAWA — Canadians are not headed to the polls just yet. The Bloc Québécois and the NDP have said they will be voting with the Liberals — ensuring a majority — in the first of three confidence votes on Mark Carney’s first budget on Thursday evening.

More specifically, they will be voting against the Conservative sub-amendment which calls on the House of Commons to reject the budget because it did not bring down the deficit to the promised $42 billion in the last fiscal update and failed to include a plan to build more oil and gas pipelines. Article content

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Interim NDP Leader Don Davies said his party will not be supporting the Conservatives’ motion because it calls for tens of billions more in cuts to public spending.

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