NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh’s decision to pull his party out of the confidence-and-supply agreement with the governing Liberals injects a lot of uncertainty into Canadian politics — and it could lead to a federal election earlier than planned.
The Liberal government is on shakier ground now that it can’t rely on the NDP to prop it up on confidence votes in a Parliament where Team Trudeau holds a minority of the seats.
But it doesn’t mean the government will soon fall on a confidence vote — a vote that determines whether the government has the support of the House of Commons.
