Interim NDP Leader Don Davies told reporters after the vote that the NDP couldn’t support the budget.
But two of his fellow New Democrats abstained from voting, which helped the budget pass.
“The consequences of defeating this budget would not be to improve it or to help Canadians. It would be to plunge the country into an election only months after the last one,” Davies told reporters outside the House chamber.
“We have decided to put the interests of our country first — to vote against the budget but to help prevent an election.”
Davies accused the Liberals of not showing any desire to change the budget to appease his party.
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by Dr Strangelove
What's interesting about this final tally is that the government ultimately didn't need NDP MPs to abstain.
The budget would have likely passed anyway because of the Conservative absences of Jeneroux and Stubbs.
If all seven NDP MPs voted against, the result would have been tied and the Speaker could have voted in the government's favour.
So, in the end, both the NDP and the Conservatives helped to prop up this Liberal government.