MPs return to Ottawa today [Video]

The Liberals sharpened their attacks on the Conservatives as the House of Commons returned from its summer break on Monday with the prospect of a snap election looming large.

It’s the first sitting since the New Democrats ended an agreement with the Liberals that insulated the minority government from losing a confidence vote.

Liberal House leader Karina Gould said the minority Parliament will now function the way that it did without the agreement, which is on a vote-by-vote basis.

“I have already been in touch with all of the House leaders in the opposition parties and my job now is to make Parliament work for Canadians,” she said.

“I know that the end of the supply-and-confidence agreement makes things a bit different, but really all it does is returns us to a normal minority Parliament.”

But Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet isn’t sure how long that will last, saying the …