The Trudeau Liberals have survived a confidence vote, meaning a pandemic-burdened snap election will be avoided. 

Trudeau declared the Conservative motion to create a special committee to probe ethics concerns and COVID-19 spending a matter of confidence, which would have plunged the country into an election had the majority of the House not backed the Liberal party leader.

The motion was narrowly defeated, with 180 opposing and 146 affirming. Members of Parliament for the New Democratic Party and Green Party sided with the Liberals, while the Conservatives and Bloc-Quebecois voted in favour of the special committee.

Both the NDP and Greens expressed discontent with the position their parties had been put in, with NDP leader Jagmeet Singh calling the Liberals "out-of-touch" yesterday during a scrum for threatening an election.

COVID cases are rising

People are worried about their jobs, children & loved ones in long term care

The PM is threatening an election because he doesn’t like a proposal for a committee?

This shows how out-of-touch Liberals are

I'm focused on Canadianspic.twitter.com/nBWbZxJyXK

— Jagmeet Singh (@theJagmeetSingh) October 20, 2020

Green Party leader Annamie Paul agreed with the formation of a special committee, but asserted that a pandemic was "no time for an election."

It is important to strike a special committee. This is so that the parliamentary committees that have been paralysed by opposition parties pushing for a deeper WE probe and Liberal filibustering can get back to work. #cdnpoli

— Annamie Paul (@AnnamiePaul) October 21, 2020

Carleton MP Pierre Poilievre tweeted that the Conservatives were not going to relent in their push against the Liberals, simply tweeting "back to the Finance Committee to pursue WE documents."

Back to Finance Committee to pursue WE scandal documents.

Conservatives will not relent in search of the truth.

— pierrepoilievre (@PierrePoilievre) October 21, 2020