Friends, brothers, sisters, and donors (yes, both of you): we did it.
It has been a long two-and-a-half years: two-and-a-half years of subtle debasement, of quiet humiliation, of trying to explain what, exactly, we’re thinking by propping up a government that we’ve also called “out-of-touch” and ineffective.
It was a marriage of convenience that ended because it was no longer convenient. No need for progressives to shed a tear, or for Liberals to fear the fall of the government, or for Conservatives to celebrate.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh did what he needed to do, what caucus members wanted him to do, what many New Democrats members believed should have been done last year.
No one is buying Singh’s “Man of Principle” tripe.
Don’t be fooled into thinking that NDP leader Jagmeet Singh’s announcement Wednesday that he’s “ripping up” his supply and confidence agreement with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau means Singh wants a snap election.
In the real world, he wants to avoid one given his party’s dismal standing in the polls.
Ditto Trudeau and the Liberals, given that Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives have had a double-digit lead over them in the polls for more than a year.
Breaking 54% of Canadians a little slow … Canadians were slightly supportive of Liberal, NDP deal, new poll shows
“If you love something, let it go. If it comes back to you, it is yours. If it doesn’t, it never was.”
It never feels good to be dumped and Justin Trudeau must be sitting alone in his room right now, listening to his go-to breakup playlist. Alas, Jagmeet Singh left him today, ending his de facto coalition, otherwise known by the dry name “supply and confidence agreement.”
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is terminating the supply-and-confidence agreement his party made with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government.
The party is making the announcement in a video being posted on social media Wednesday afternoon. The deal was scheduled to run until June 2025.
“Justin Trudeau has proven again and again he will always cave to corporate greed. The Liberals have let people down. They don’t deserve another chance from Canadians,” Singh said in the video, a transcript of which was obtained by CBC News
The deal is done.
The Liberals are too weak, too selfish and too beholden to corporate interests to stop the Conservatives and their plans to cut. But the NDP can.
Big corporations and CEOs have had their governments. It’s the people’s time. pic.twitter.com/BsE9zT0CwF
— Jagmeet Singh (@theJagmeetSingh) September 4, 2024
h/t Andycanuck
NB – Jagmeet’s NDP will still have to vote Justin out, that doesn’t have to happen just because they ended the formal agreement.
OTTAWA, W.Va. – New Democrat labour critic Matthew Green says his party will be having “tough conversations” about the future of its agreement with the Liberals at a coming caucus retreat.
Two years ago the NDP and Liberals forged a confidence-and-supply agreement, with the New Democrats agreeing to keep the minority government in power until June of next year in exchange for movement on key priorities.
The NDP is facing pressure from the Conservatives to break its agreement with the Liberals and trigger an early election, and doing so would not leave many of its big agenda items on the table, a review of the deal shows.
Major pieces of legislation supported by the NDP have been adopted in the areas of dental care, child care, and energy transition, while the pharmacare bill is in the Senate after clearing the House of Commons in June.
On Thursday, Pierre Poilievre wrote a letter to Jagmeet Singh asking the NDP leader to pull his support for the Liberal government and trigger a fall election. There is scant reason to think Singh will entertain such an idea, but that wasn’t the point of the letter. Poilievre is looking to divide, and conquer a coalition government.
Liberals confident deal with NDP to keep them in power will hold until June
Government House Leader Karina Gould said Tuesday she’s confident the NDP supply-and-confidence agreement that keeps the Liberal government in power will hold until its expected end date in June 2025.
That agreement, first signed in March 2022, allows the government to carry on without fear of falling on a confidence vote. If the two parties abide by the deal, there would be no federal election until next summer at the earliest.
Canada’s fixed-date election law dictates that a vote will happen in October of next year — but the prime minister could call one earlier than that if he wanted.
This week, Jagmeet Singh called Justin Trudeau “cowardly” over his position on the railway work stoppage. Last week, Singh was saying life for Canadians under Trudeau has gotten much worse.
But don’t expect the NDP Leader to do anything about a government he clearly doesn’t think is working for Canadians.
Everybody is wondering whether Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will step down before the next federal election. They should be asking the same question of Jagmeet Singh. A pair of by-elections next month could reveal whether the time has come for the NDP Leader to depart.
Mr. Singh can take pride in knowing that, thanks to him, Canada has a new national dental care program and the beginnings of national pharmacare. He entered into a supply-and-confidence agreement with the Liberals after the last election on the condition the government implement those programs
Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says his party has built a “strong brand across the country” — but lately, that brand appears to be doing a lot better in provincial politics than at the federal level.
In British Columbia, where Singh is one of 13 B.C. NDP MPs, Premier David Eby’s New Democrats are leading in the polls heading into a general election this fall. The provincial NDP led by Wab Kinew unseated the incumbent Progressive Conservatives in Manitoba last year after seven years in opposition.
My bet is Singh will be turfed once Trudeau is ousted.
An NDP insider says New Democrats were surprised by the Liberals’ loss in the recent Toronto byelection — and now see the governing party’s weakness as an opportunity.
Anne McGrath, principal secretary to NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh in the House of Commons, told CBC News the party thought the outcome of the Toronto St Paul’s byelection would be close but not a Conservative upset.
The NDP lost vote share in the St. Paul’s byelection.
More than a million people are expected to visit the Calgary Stampede making it an ideal event for political photo-ops. But this year, only Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre will be saddling up for the event, while both Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and NDP leader Jagmeet Singh will stay away.
Political watchers say the absence of Trudeau and Singh are calculated defensive moves to protect against friendly fire they may encounter at the outdoor festival.
Since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal party went down to a disastrous defeat in a byelection on June 24 in the riding of Toronto-St. Paul’s, pressure has mounted on Trudeau to resign. But Trudeau isn’t the only party leader who is in deep trouble.
Jagmeet Singh, leader of the New Democratic Party (NDP), I believe is also in a political “death spiral.”
