OTTAWA — Canada’s minority Parliament was again the stage for high drama Thursday night, when an Alberta Conservative MP — whom the Star has learned met with Prime Minister Mark Carney this week — said he will resign his seat mere moments before the Liberals survived a confidence vote over this week’s federal budget.

The move immediately raised questions about whether the governing Liberals will soon be just one seat shy of a working majority in the House of Commons.

It also cast further attention on Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s grip over his party, two days after another Tory MP defected to the government benches.

The news broke Thursday evening, as MPs gathered to vote for the first of at least three confidence votes over the coming days that will decide whether Canada faces

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