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Prime Minister Mark Carney holds a large lead over Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre in approval ratings.

‘Twas much ado about very little. There was a next-to-zero chance of the Carney government falling on the vote on the budget. None of the parties wanted an election. Nor did the population.

So, there was lots of posturing by the parties to vote down the budget but make sure the government was kept afloat. The media had to play along, making a big deal of the show, because with minority governments there’s always a chance of an accident happening – the best example being the forehead-slapper of 1979, when Joe Clark’s government failed a grade-school seat-count test and beheaded itself.

Mark Carney ’s government is a heavyweight minority, only a couple of votes shy of a

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