OTTAWA — After 18 months without a budget, the minority Liberals tabled a plan containing nearly $126 billion in new spending and $60 billion in savings, which they hope will convince at least one opposition party to prevent an early election.

Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne tabled his first budget in the House of Commons shortly after 4 p.m. on Tuesday, for what he said is a “true generational shift” in reaction to the new global economic landscape under U.S. President Donald Trump.

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But Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government is left with the short-term dilemma of surviving a confidence vote, which could happen as early as the middle of November.

Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives had already said they would not support a deficit higher than last year’s e

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