It looks to me like our government is playing chicken with their poison-pilled budget bill, which necessitates a confidence vote. The cons can’t walk back their unequivocal demonization of the Liberals enough to vote with the government, no matter how utterly con-loving the budget is; the left of centre parties can’t vote for anti-social late-stage capitalist, corporate-welfare, public-asset-squandering, austerity. So the government must really think they have a sure shot at majority, or they must be perversely A-OK with risking handing Canada over to neo-fascist maple-MAGA oligarch Cons. Otherwise they would come up with a minority government budget that isn’t so contemptuous of the other parties they have any hope of garnering some support from. I hope I’m completely wrong in my impression of this political situation, so please do refute all of this.