No early election as MPs pass Prime Minister Mark Carney's budget

Canadians avoided a return to the polls as MPs on Monday night voted in favour of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s budget.

The budget vote served as a confidence vote for the minority Liberals, who needed the support of another party — or at least a few MP’s outside their party — to get required votes to pass the budget.

In the lead-up, opposition parties spoke against the budget as well as its whopping $78.3-billion deficit, saying it did not align with their priorities.

HIGH SPENDING BUDGET CRITICIZED

“Carney sold Canadians on this idea that he was going to be different than Trudeau, that he was going to be a financial guru — but this budget looks a lot like the budgets we got over the past 10 years,” Franco Terrazzano, of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, told the_ Toronto Sun_ after t