Budget bill back on the House docket as ministers hit the committee circuit – iPolitics
December 4th, 2025
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With a week and a day to go until the House of Commons is scheduled to shut down for the season, MPs are once again set to spend the day going over the fine print of Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne’s 634-page plan to roll out key measures announced in his inaugural budget last month — and, more specifically, a Conservative-initiated amendment that urges MPs to reject the his request to send the bill to committee for further review, which has already clocked in seven days of second-reading debate with no sign that it may be getting anywhere close to calling the question.
Under standard parliamentary protocols, the minority Liberals would need the support of at least four opposition members to forcibly wrap up the debate to force a vote on the bill — which, as it involves budget policy, would be considered a question of confidence, making it distinctly unlikely that the government would want to trigger such a test unless it was supremely confident that it would pass.
