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Vaughn Palmer: Speaker breaks tie to advance NDP's mess of a budget

Opinion: Vote shows that, however bad this budget is, the B.C. NDP can manage with its bare, one-seat majority

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VICTORIA — The motion approved by the B.C. legislature shortly before noon on Thursday did not, on the face of it, communicate what was at stake for the NDP government and its budget.

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Framed in the arcane language of parliament, the motion said that “the Speaker do now leave the chair for the house to go into the committee of supply.”

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But “supply”........

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