Toronto — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's budget narrowly passed on Monday, avoiding a possible election.

Carney's Liberal government does not have enough votes to pass the budget on its own but it passed 170-168 with the support of a Green Party member of Parliament and some New Democratic Party abstentions.

“Canadians do not want an election right now,” Don Davies, the interim New Democratic Party leader, said. “The consequences of defeating this budget would not be to improve it or to help Canadians. It would be to plunge the country into an election only months after the last one. And while we still face an existential threat from the Trump administration.”

The budget vote is considered a vote of confidence in the minority Liberal government.

“Parliamentarians decided to put

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