Surprising No One Budget 2025 Was Passed

Why does the political class actually believe Canadians really care about the minutia of what happens in Parliament?

I am one of those who follows politics pretty closely. So here is a brief summary of how the budget was passed:

The Liberals did not give a damn whether it passed or not. They were the only party that was poised to benefit from an election and they also knew that two of their opponents wanted desperately to avoid one.

The Bloc did not want an election either but they were not as desperate so they decided to vote against knowing it would not come back to bite them on the ass.

Elizabeth May managed to win vague assurances from the PM, providing her with the political cover to vote for the budget.

The Conservatives and the NDP desperately wanted to avoid an election but they did not want to be seen supporting the budget either. So they took the half-assed approach of making certain that not enough of their members voted to ensure their votes did not exceed that of the Liberals and Greens. Hell, the Conservatives literally had two of their senior members hide behind curtains in the House so that they could quickly move into their seats to vote once the outcome was known.

All of this is very interesting and both amateur and professional political commentators have been in a tizzy since it happened.

Monday night, after the vote I went to my non-political wife to tell her the results. She had seen in the news the week before that there was a confidence vote that could trigger another election. She asked me if we were going to have an election and I said no.

So, when I went to tell her I began giving her the above summary. She stopped me very early and asked "Is there going to be an election?" 

I said "No."

"Good"

"Don't you want to hear the details?"

"No."

And we have not spoken about it since.

For years my wife has reminded me that most Canadians do not care about politics to the point they want to know details. And those that do care tend to have already chosen a side and nothing that happens will probably change that.

So the Conservatives and the NDP twisting themselves into knots Monday night was all for naught. It was a complete waste of time.