By luring now-former NDP Lori Idlout across the floor to join the Liberal caucus, Prime Minister Mark Carney has brought his Liberals up to 170. With three byelections pending, two of which are in reliably safe Liberal seats and the third a Liberal-Bloc tossup, the Liberals seem set to achieve a bare minimum majority in the near future, almost a year after falling just short of that mark in last year’s election. And possibly even exceed it by a single seat, freeing the speaker from those awkward tie-breaking votes.
