Just one year after Canadians last headed to the polls, another election was avoided as the NDP voted with the Liberal government against a Tory motion that the Liberals had set as a confidence vote.
The prospect of a snap election amid the second wave of the pandemic loomed this week as the Liberals and Conservatives sparred over the Tory’s push to create a special “anticorruption” committee that would scrutinize WE Charity and other pandemic relief programs the Conservatives flagged as being carried out unethically.
