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On Wednesday, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre forgot to move the main amendment criticizing the budget.

It wasn’t the balance of voting power in the Commons that shifted when MP Chris d’Entremont crossed the floor from the Conservatives to the Liberals this week. It was the political dynamics.

The threat of more defections could deflate Pierre Poilievre ’s swagger.

The first order of parliamentary business on the day after the budget is for the Leader of the Opposition to get up, make a speech in reply to the government’s budget motion, and then move the main amendment criticizing the budget and proposing to alter it.

But on Wednesday, Mr. Poilievre, a 21-year veteran of the House of Commons in his fourth year as Opposition Leader, forgot to move his amendment. That a

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