Make-or-break votes on estimates, Conservative call for Northern B.C. pipeline loom as MPs head into final week of the sitting – iPolitics
December 7th, 2025
A look ahead at the week in federal politics.
With just five days to go before the House of Commons automatically shuts down for the season, there’s still no official word on how the last week of the sitting might play out, but there is one make-or-break red-letter-date looming: namely, Dec. 10, which, as per longstanding parliamentary protocols, is the final day of the fall supply cycle, and the deadline for MPs to either approve — or, alternately, reject — the latest batch of supplementary estimates, which include $10.7 billion in proposed new spending.
Last month, Government House Leader Steven MacKinnon gave his Commons colleagues a provisional heads up that those votes — which are considered confidence tests, but can be decided without a recorded division if all parties agree to do so — could actually be called a day earlier, on Dec. 9, which, by tradition, would also serve as the final opposition-designated supply day.
