Countdown to budget reveal shifts from days to hours as MPs circle back to bail reform proposal, citizenship law changes – iPolitics
November 3rd, 2025
What’s happening on (and off) Parliament Hill, plus the news you need to start your day.
After wrapping up a whirlwind nine-day stint on the Asia-Pacific summit circuit over the weekend, Prime Minister Mark Carney won’t be back in his front-and-centre seat in the House of Commons as the countdown to the unveiling of his minority Liberal government’s first budget shifts from days to hours, according to his official itinerary.
He will, however, welcome visiting Prince Edward Island premier Rob Lantz to the capital this afternoon. (1:40 p.m.)
Back in the chamber, MPs are set to vote on a controversial opposition-engineered rewrite of the government’s latest attempt to change the rules for recognizing the citizenship of children born to Canadians abroad, which, as chronicled by Process Nerd last week, prompted both Citizenship and Immigration Minister Lena Metlege Diab and New Democrat MP Jenny Kwan to put forward report-stage amendments that, if adopted, would effectively roll back several significant changes to the bill made at committee with the combined support of the Conservatives and the Bloc Québécois.
