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OTTAWA, Oct 21 — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau yesterday put the fate of his Liberal government on the line, saying an opposition push to probe how Ottawa is tackling the coronavirus would be put to a confidence vote today. The Liberals, who only won a minority of seats in an October...

Wednesday, 21 Oct 2020 06:58 AM MYT

The Liberals, who only won a minority of seats in an October 2019 election, need backing from another party to survive. Trudeau's fate depends on the left-leaning New Democrats, whose leader Jagmeet Singh said he had no interest in a vote. The Conservatives want to create a committee to examine what they call the government's ethical problems. One area of focus is payments to Trudeau's wife and mother by a charity chosen to manage a student grant program.

“The opposition is going to have to decide whether they want to make this minority parliament work or whether they have lost confidence in the government,” said Trudeau, who is proposing a committee with a broader mandate to probe the response to a pandemic that has killed 9,778 people in Canada.

 

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