The government survives its third confidence vote, but not without a major betrayal from one of its own MPs. And the betrayal comes from a woman named Shannon Stubbs, who was in the midst of a medical absence when she voted against the government.
00:00:00.160Good evening patriots. Tonight I have some really bad news for you. The Mark Carney government narrowly survived the budget vote, meaning that him and his government will be in power for the foreseeable future.
00:00:10.820However, it gets worse. A lot worse. Polyev was stabbed yet again in the back by another one of his MPs. Tonight we're going to take a look at that.
00:00:19.300Tonight there was a confidence vote over the budget and it passed 170-168, meaning that there won't be a Christmas election and Mark Carney will stay in power at least a little while longer.
00:00:30.100Now this is where it gets weird. The Bloc kept their word and voted no. The NDP mostly voted no. However, two conservative MPs abstained from voting.
00:00:40.140And this includes the traitorous MP Matt Jenrow, who suspiciously announced his resignation on the same week that Mark Carney unveiled his budget.
00:00:47.600And the betrayal also comes from another relatively unknown figure, a woman named Shannon Stubbs from Alberta.
00:00:53.980Now according to her spokesperson, Stubbs was recovering from a surgery. However, there's evidence to contradict that. And there was a video posted to her ex-account earlier today, which I'll show you.
00:01:04.500Hey, if you thought the Liberals' war on Canada's natural resources was bad enough, wait until you hear this.
00:01:09.640Last year, the Liberals passed Bill C-59 that rewrote the Competition Act to make it nearly impossible for businesses to speak about the environment unless they echo vague and undefined Liberal standards.
00:01:21.940Conservatives have been speaking out about this anti-development bill and we've committed that we'll repeal it.
00:01:26.740Now, I don't know about you, but she doesn't look sick to me. And even if she was sick, even if she was in bed, she still could have voted electronically.
00:01:35.480The way I see it, her actions, or should I say inactions, were an act of betrayal. She stabbed Polyev in the back.
00:01:43.120The scary thing is that it looks like the Liberals have bought off more conservative MPs than we previously thought.
00:01:48.840I knew trouble was brewing. I could see it a mile away. I just didn't know how it was going to play out.
00:01:54.100So I'm going to show you a clip about the recent budget vote. Before we get into this, I want to remind you I'm still being censored.
00:02:00.700And I think that's part of the reason you haven't seen my videos recently.
00:02:03.580If you see this part, let me know in the comments section, give me a quick like, and make sure you're still subscribed. Let's go.
00:02:10.620Well, you just saw it on Power and Politics. Lots of drama in Ottawa.
00:02:14.640The Liberal government, though, has narrowly survived its third confidence vote.
00:02:19.700The Prime Minister Mark Carney's first federal budget has passed.
00:02:24.100So there will not be a snap election, and Carney gets the green light to move forward with his spending plan.
00:02:37.580A plan which includes new investments aimed to ease the cost of living for Canadians, along with cuts to the public service workforce.
00:02:46.020All right. David Cochran's been a very busy journalist over the last two and a half hours.
00:02:50.180The host of CBC's Power and Politics joins us again.
00:02:53.540And David, lots of drama. We saw it unfold on your program.
00:02:57.560You haven't had a lot of chance to reflect on what you reported on.
00:03:00.920But what stands out to you with this vote?
00:03:02.840I think what really stands out to me, Ian, is how emphatically clear it is that none of the parties other than the Bloc Québécois wanted an election.
00:03:11.020And they were all prepared to take steps to make sure that there would not be an election here.
00:03:15.920You had a couple of the Conservative MPs not vote until the very end of voting, claiming they were trying to use the remote app and that it had failed,
00:03:27.760which was an interesting move considering that it was the Conservative House leader and the caucus chair were both present in Parliament physically.
00:03:34.260So there was no reason they would be using the app except to wait until the last minute to see where the votes are and take steps to avoid accidentally bringing down the government.
00:03:43.060And, of course, the New Democrats who ended up with a split decision from the caucus that the leader and four other of his MPs voting against the budget,
00:03:50.760but Laurie Edlout and Gord Johns abstaining.
00:03:54.420Laurie Edlout doing that remotely on the app, even though she was also in Ottawa.
00:03:59.100But Gord Johns showing up in his seat and staying in his seat.
00:04:03.060So there's a visual signal there that the Liberals had enough votes to get the budget through.
00:04:09.100Also, on the Conservative side, there are two extensions I want to note.
00:04:12.020Shannon Stubbs, who is a true Team Polyev, a member of Parliament not voting, with a medical absence and an approved medical absence to not vote there.
00:04:22.900But Matt Jenner, Ian, who recently announced that he is soon resigning for politics, will not be seeking re-election,
00:04:30.200will be quitting his seat at some point in the spring.
00:04:52.200So either way, the vote in favor from Elizabeth May, which we learned about very early in the day, the abstentions from the Conservative ranks and from the NDP ranks,
00:05:02.060enough to get this budget over the line.
00:05:04.760And there have been confidence votes so far for this government.
00:05:08.100This is the first real one that we had some uncertainty about.
00:05:10.480This one, the Kearney government survives and moves ahead on.
00:05:13.560So no November, December campaign with the January election.
00:05:17.580So, Ian, you don't need to learn how to do the map because this means I don't have to quit.
00:05:21.360Yeah, I got to tell you, one of the things I found surprising watching the vote from afar is that,
00:05:29.160and you live in this world all the time, so presumably it wasn't a surprise to you,
00:05:33.160but how it just wasn't clear to anyone, including you and Rosemary, for a while what exactly the vote was.
00:05:41.340I would have thought these days you just, you know, press a button or put up your hand
00:05:45.380and the counts are instant and have complete clarity, but there was some real uncertainty there for a while.
00:05:51.600Yeah, you see that with votes in the U.S. Congress, right, where there's a running tally of yeas and nays by party
00:05:57.020because everything is done by pressing a budget and electronic recording.
00:06:00.880The Westminster tradition, it is stand on your feet and be counted.
00:06:04.660The hybrid vote only exists really as a consequence of COVID,
00:06:08.680where you couldn't cram everybody into a room to keep running a democratically elected government,
00:06:12.720so you needed to find a way to do it safely around everything.
00:06:17.700But there is, there have been problems with those votes, there have been bugs technically,
00:06:22.180so there needs to be a process where you can come on at the end and say,
00:06:25.240I couldn't vote or my vote was improperly recorded or I pressed yes when I meant to vote no.
00:06:30.360We saw a bit of that with Leah Gazan, the NDP MP for Winnipeg Center,
00:06:34.240who clearly voted no, recorded her vote and wanted to come on so she had the opportunity to try to make a speech,
00:06:39.300which the Parliament jeered about and the Speaker eventually shut down.
00:06:43.700But, you know, it has also created an opportunity for people to play games,
00:06:47.880which I think is a little bit what Laurie Idlaut did and what Scott Reid and Andrew Scheer did,
00:06:52.720because Laurie Idlaut, her vote initially was recorded as no, later changed to an abstention,