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The dynamics of this election campaign have been nothing if not unusual. Consider, for example, that the Liberals’ remarkable ascent has had very little to do with the flagging fortunes of their Conservative rivals — and plenty to do with the near-collapse of the NDP and Bloc Québécois.

Support for the independantistes has declined almost exclusively due to threats from U.S. President Donald Trump toward Canada’s economy and sovereignty. What the Bloc offers Quebec — namely, the protection of its cultural and linguistic rights — is simply not much in demand right now. Among Quebecers, a surprising increase in Canadian nationalism and a growing sense of common cause with the rest of the country have made the Bloc all but irrelevant.

Singh’s support of Trudeau sealed his fate.

Why some voters are sticking with Singh and the NDP and why others are voting Liberal despite being open to voting NDP.

Something significant has happened to the NDP vote in this federal election. A party that, for much of the past two years, consistently held between 18% and 20% support now finds itself with just 9% of the committed vote, according to our latest Abacus Data survey conducted from April 7 to 10, 2025. That’s a collapse—one of the most dramatic shifts we’ve seen in this campaign. The last time support for the NDP was this low was way back in the 1990s.

MONTREAL — There is an air of resignation, if not acceptance, about Jagmeet Singh these days.

He seems to know that his time in federal politics is coming to an end.

As he came down the steps of his campaign plane for the cameras, after landing in Montreal on Monday, he cut a dejected figure. I said to him that Justin Trudeau would have waved at the non-existent crowd. He laughed it off.

A volunteer-based political organization is accusing the New Democratic Party (NDP) of coordinating a harassment campaign against them.

At the same time, a group of digital influencers previously working with the party have cut ties, citing mistreatment of fellow content creators and internal dysfunction. One NDP candidate described the party to The Rover as being in “absolute turmoil.”

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is making a plea to Canadians today to give his party an influential role in Parliament and not reward either the Conservatives or Liberals with a majority government where they hold all the power.

“Ottawa works best when there’s someone there to hold the powerful to account,” Singh said Friday at the Broadbent Institute’s annual conference.

The institute is a social democratic think tank formed by former federal NDP leader Ed Broadbent and its annual Progress Summit is falling this year in the third week of the federal election campaign.

A new poll shows Jagmeet Singh losing his seat by MASSIVE margins to the Conservatives

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Under Jagmeet Singh , Canada’s New Democratic Party has successes its leftist supporters can be proud of.

A national dental care program, pharmacare and anti-replacement-worker legislation are all in line with the party’s social democratic vision of governance.

But they came about in a curious way, as the NDP’s policy reward in a tit-for-tat arrangement that kept the governing Liberal party in power well past the end of its popular support.

He was only ever interested in his pension.

With polls showing his party mired in third place in the federal election campaign, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said Monday he has no regrets about how he handled his party’s governance deal with the Liberals.

With the data all pointing toward a two-horse race, Singh said his party’s accomplishments through the supply and confidence agreement with former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s government should convince more people to support the NDP.

Venal is as venal does.

The bus is orange. The seats are carpeted. And the battle cry for the partisans on board is borrowed from the late Jack Layton: “Don’t let them tell you it can’t be done.”

Layton led the NDP to its best-ever election result in 2011, when the party won 100 seats and, for the first and only time, became the official opposition.

Jagmeet Singh, by contrast, is fighting to keep official party status.

After ending his party’s supply-and-confidence agreement with the Liberals in September 2024, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh consistently voted against the Conservatives’ confidence motions that sought to bring down the minority government.

“We’re not going to let [Conservative Leader] Pierre Poilievre tell us what to do,” Singh said on Sept. 19 ahead of the tabling of the first of several such motions by the Tories.

As Canada faces an election defined by President Trump’s threats, its progressive party, the New Democrats, finds itself losing support and confronting an existential crisis.

The pain of having teeth pulled and gums prodded for denture fittings was followed by relief at the payment counter: The $4,000 worth of work would cost Ron Brydges nothing under Canada’s new national dental care program.

“This dental plan being free was just a godsend,” said Mr. Brydges, 84, a retired industrial mechanic in St. Catharines, Ontario.

For that, Canadians largely have the leftist New Democratic Party to thank.