Representatives from more than a dozen British Columbia mosques and Islamic associations have sent a letter to Premier David Eby calling for the minister of post-secondary education to be removed from her role.
They say no NDP MLA or candidate for the next election is welcome in their sacred spaces until the premier takes action against Selina Robinson.
She has faced heavy criticism and calls to resign for days after saying Israel was founded on a “crappy piece of land.”
As progress on some measures in the Liberal-NDP confidence-and-supply agreement continue to play out publicly, the two parties have quietly been in talks to table electoral reform legislation before the next federal vote.
Leading these negotiations on the political front, are Public Safety, Democratic Institutions and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc, and NDP MP and democratic reform critic Daniel Blaikie.
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EDMONTON—On the surface, it was a dream canvassing scenario.
As the NDP’s Jagmeet Singh and a group of MPs and supporters knocked on doors in the highly sought-after riding of Edmonton Centre, a middle-aged man and his young adult son spotted the leader from afar and hurried across a strip mall parking lot to say hello.
… “Unfortunately, I just think the country, in the state it’s in right now, means I can’t support the Liberals,” he told the Star.
“And if the NDP are supporting the Liberals, I can’t support the NDP either.”
The federal New Democrats recently announced a bit of a leadership shake-up: Anne McGrath, whose many past roles have included chief of staff to Jack Layton and principal secretary to Rachel Notley, is stepping down as party president to become principal secretary for Jagmeet Singh. The press release said the changes were about “building momentum for the next election,” which New Democrats could surely use: Over the last two years the Conservatives have surged to roughly 40 per cent in the polls; the Liberals have tanked to roughly 25 per cent; and the NDP is right where it was before, at 20 per cent or less.
OTTAWA – NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is ruling out the possibility of forming a coalition government with the Liberals if no party wins a clear majority after the next federal election.
“That’s off the table,” Singh said in a year-end interview with The Canadian Press, even though the two parties have been working closely together.
The NDP is hoping to translate policy success into political success when some key elements of their supply-and-confidence agreement with the Liberals roll out in 2024 — but one polling analyst says the party’s numbers don’t seem to be budging.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh told CBC News Network’s Power & Politics that his main goal is to push for policies that help Canadians. But he conceded that he hopes the NDP can get some credit for some of the government’s recent policy moves.
With support for the Trudeau government collapsing, it is shocking that the federal New Democrats have stagnated in the polls and failed to win over more young voters. Getting serious on housing might help the party break its malaise.
Singh is even more phony than Trudeau and that takes effort.
Pharmacare, it seems, is doomed. For a while, it appeared that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s minority Liberal government, backed by Jagmeet Singh’s New Democrats, might create a national drug scheme that was both universal and public.
Indeed, creation of a real pharmacare program was the NDP’s price for keeping the Trudeau minority government alive. The party’s rank and file made that clear, most recently at their national convention held in Hamilton in October.
This will be as close as Singh ever gets to real power. He’s going to enjoy the ride and qualify for his pension.
If Liberals need more time on pharmacare , NDP says it will demand ‘more results’
OTTAWA – The NDP says there’s still enough time for the Liberals to meet their deadline for introducing pharmacare legislation, but if the government needs more time, their legislative dance partners are expecting more results.
NDP spokesperson Alana Cahill says her party was “very clear” that the Liberals’ first draft of a pharmacare bill “missed the mark” and didn’t guarantee coverage for everyone.
So the Justmeet show drags on till 2025.
It’s one thing to hear people, whether it be celebrities or politicians, say they are just like us normal folks.
But when it’s not backed up, the regular average Joes and Jills will always have something to say.
I know the NDP are dim but how did this transparent fraud get elected?
VICTORIA – Federal New Democrat Leader Jagmeet Singh took political swings at both Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre today at a convention for British Columbia Premier David Eby’s governing NDP.
Singh, whose New Democrats are in a confidence and supply agreement with the federal Liberal minority government, says Trudeau is an out of touch leader who only acts when facing political troubles.
He says Poilievre, meanwhile, only pretends to care and doesn’t know about the struggles and lives of regular people.
The NDP likes to say that it must always be election-ready — especially in a minority Parliament.
But as the party looks ahead to 2024, many signs indicate its election machinery is gearing up.
Some outside the party point out that money issues still stand in the way of getting the NDP ready for an election.
Deep six Singh, it’s their only hope of retaining what they have.
They could just merge with the Libs.
OTTAWA—With no indication the governing Liberals will agree to the New Democrats’ demand for a universal public pharmacare program, eyes are on NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and whether he will stick with his party’s “red line” or back down to save their parliamentary alliance with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
But despite pressure from grassroots NDP members and assurances from his own health critic that exiting the deal is necessary if the party’s vision isn’t met, Singh refused to state Wednesday whether he was prepared to take that step.
I'd need a yellow card to prove I am a woman? Nothing says inclusion like carrying around a card. https://t.co/OPfbVICmGt
— Melissa Mbarki (@MelissaMbarki) October 16, 2023
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Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh has survived his leadership review, but support from his party is declining.
During the second day of the NDP convention in Ottawa, 81 per cent of delegates voted in favour of Singh following his keynote speech.
It’s the lowest confidence vote for an NDP leader since Tom Mulclair, who was rejected by more than half of delegates at the party’s 2016 convention in Edmonton.
