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In parliamentary ‘game of chicken,’ NDP side with Liberals to defeat Conservative motion, averting snap election

The nail-biter 146-180 vote came down in large part to the NDP. Its 24 representatives voted alongside the Liberals and the Greens’ three-member caucus in defeating a Conservative motion that would have precipitated a snap election amid the second wave of the pandemic.

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BY BEATRICE PAEZ
October 21, 2020

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In parliamentary ‘game of chicken,’ NDP side with Liberals to defeat Conservative motion, averting snap election

The nail-biter 146-180 vote came down in large part to the NDP. Its 24 representatives voted alongside the Liberals and the Greens’ three-member caucus in defeating a Conservative motion that would have precipitated a snap election amid the second wave of the pandemic.

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