Conservatives won’t say if MPs will be forced to vote against budget

Discreet, determined and unafraid of a fight, Lise Bacon entered politics to change the world. She loved Quebec first and foremost, believed in a united Canada and worked hard throughout her career to ensure that people were protected, be they consumers, children or the unemployed.No matter if it was as a young political activist, a provincial Liberal minister in the cabinet of premier Robert Bourassa, Quebec’s first-ever female deputy premier or during her long stint as a federal senator, Ms. Bacon, who died on Oct. 29 in Montreal at the age of 91, mastered each file she was in charge of so...