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Liberals return to Parliament with majority after three byelection wins
Liberal MPs will now have more clout in the House of Commons after three byelection wins gave Prime Minister Mark Carney the numbers to form a majority government.
The Liberals now have 174 seats in the House, two more than the minimum for a majority. That makes Carney’s the first federal government in Canadian history to go from a minority to a majority between elections.
Canada hasn’t had a majority government since former prime minister Justin Trudeau swept to power with a landslide win in 2015.
Gaining a majority means the governing Liberals have more than half of the votes in the House, and can survive confidence votes without the support of another party.
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Liberals set to form historic majority government after sweeping three byelections
Danielle Martin, Doly Begum and Tatiana Auguste will soon head to the House of Commons after winning a set of byelections for the Liberals in two Toronto ridings and one in a suburb of Montreal.
A family physician, Martin told supporters in the University—Rosedale riding that she was humbled by the win and vowed to get right to work.
In Scarborough Southwest, Begum, a former New Democrat, secured her seat for the Liberals, which she said has a responsibility to build a country where opportunity is real.
And in the Quebec riding of Terrebonne, north of Montreal, Auguste told supporters in French that she pledged to work for her constituents.
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Mideast war, pipeline push serve as backdrop to oil and gas investment conference
Leaders of some of Canada’s biggest oil and gas producers are discussing the state of their industry with investors at a private conference as the war in the Middle East continues to roil commodity markets.
Presentations at the 2026 BMO CAPP Energy Symposium, which kicks off today, are closed to the public and media, but some speakers will be participating in press interviews.
The conference is taking place as the war embroiling much of the Middle East halts oil tanker shipments out of the Persian Gulf, driving global prices higher.
The conference is also being held amid a push in Canada to more speedily build oil and gas export infrastructure to serve markets beyond what has traditionally been this country’s biggest customer — the United States.
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