OTTAWA, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) -- Canada's parliament will resume Monday afternoon, almost two months after Prime Minister forced it to suspend to avoid a government defeat by the opposition.
Governor General Michaelle Jean will open the new session of parliament with a throne speech, which lays out the government's future policy agenda.
But what decides the fate of the minority Conservative government will be the federal budget, which will be released Tuesday and then go to a confidence vote in parliament a few days after.
The biggest opposition group the Liberal Party will decide that, as both the other two opposition parties have announced to reject it, claiming they have lost confidence in the government.
Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff has said he will read the budget first before he decides whether to support or not, but he is widely expected to support it at last as he struggles to rebuild a party burdened by funding lack and internal strifes.
The budget will focus on a detailed stimulus package to address the faltering economy. Government officials say it is based on extensive consultations with the premiers and opposition leaders, along with submissions from more than 680 groups and organizations.
Although the Liberals have voiced concern that the budget would cause the first deficit in ten years and include a permanent tax cut for the middle class that they say is ill-directed, analysts say these are not too big problems to force leader Ignatieff to reject it.
"My sense here is that the Liberals are probably going to end up supporting this budget because there probably is going to be enough in there for everybody," said Canadian Television analyst Robert Fife.
In December, the opposition planed to topple the government and replace it with a coalition after the Conservatives released a fiscal update which withdrew public funding for the federal parties and failed to include details of an economic stimulus package.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper then requested the governor general to suspend parliament, to avoid being defeated on an opposition non-confidence motion. Parliament has been shut down for close to two months.