Jagmeet Singh’s advisers must have scripted a line for him to repeat every time a reporter asked his reason for pulling out of the NDP’s deal to support the Liberal government, and he repeated it doggedly. But it wasn’t really an explanation. It didn’t explain much of anything, and it wasn’t supposed to.
Mr. Singh didn’t point to any bargain that was broken or new development. He said the NDP got a lot done under the supply-and-confidence agreement, “but it became very clear to me that Justin Trudeau was too beholden to corporate interests to go further.” After two and a half years of an alliance, Mr. Singh had apparently discovered the Prime Minister’s true nature.
