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The Conservatives have a second motion coming for a vote Monday. That motion calls for a wide range of documents to be provided to the commons health committee and for ministers to testify about the pandemic response, including PPE contracts, rapid testing and vaccine limits.

That vote wont be a confidence measure, but an NDP source said had the Liberals tried to force that they would have lost the NDPs support.

Privately, Liberals insist they are not interested in an election, but told the National Post they were confident the opposition would back down. They also said, while they dont want one, they were not afraid of an election either and an increasingly difficult Parliament may leave them without options.

A Leger poll conducted last week, had the Liberals with 36 per cent support, ahead of the Conservatives at 29 per cent and the NDP at 18 per cent.

Reid, the former Martin advisor, said the Conservatives proposed committee had the potential to keep the attention away from the Liberals plans for the pandemic and onto scandals they want to move away from.

He said the move this week could potentially stabilize the minority parliament because it gives the Liberals control of the agenda and makes it clear theyre not afraid to push back.

If youre a sitting government and you fear an election, then youre a concession waiting to occur. And the opposition will smell it, and they will know it, and they will force it.

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