Liberals having very good budget talks with NDP, says Freeland – National [Video]

The Liberal government is having “very good conversations” with the New Democratic Party over getting this year’s federal budget through the House of Commons, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland told reporters in Montreal on Monday.

Freeland was asked if the Liberals were willing to go to polls if the NDP were to decide not to support the federal budget. NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh hasn’t yet said whether his party, which has a supply and confidence agreement with the minority Liberals, will vote to help pass it.

“We have had good conversations with the NDP. I’ve had good conversations with my finance critic Don Davies over the weekend. This is a budget that does what Canadians need,” she said, adding that this was a budget that made “historic investments in housing.”

Last week, Freeland tabled the federal government’s budgetwith a heavy focus on housing as well as policies officials say target the struggles facing millennials and Gen Z. The budget promises …