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OTTAWA—NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is ramping up his attacks on Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney, painting him as a corporate-friendly politician who will slash public services just like Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre.

In a campaign-style speech to labour organizers in Edmonton on Thursday, Singh argued Carney’s pledge this week to balance the federal operating budget and cap the growth of the public service would hurt Canadian workers and help the wealthy.

Whether it’s stealing Singh’s votes or a coalition one way or another Carney will be riding Singh.

OTTAWA — For the first time since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his resignation last month, a new poll shows Canadian politics experiencing a rare phenomenon: stability.

A Postmedia-Leger survey found the Conservatives leading with 41 per cent support, the Liberals in second with 33 per cent support and the NDP’s support plunging to 11 per cent.

Singh Says Pipelines Would Not Be First Priority for NDP Energy Policy

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says he sees an east-west clean electricity corridor as his first priority for expanding the Canadian energy market—not new pipelines.

While Singh isn’t shutting the door entirely to pipelines, he says pipeline projects must be accepted by the communities through which they’re routed, must not hurt the environment, must provide good jobs and must meet indigenous consultation requirements.

OTTAWA — After Jagmeet Singh spent the fall struggling to prove he could be the change Canadians want, time is now ticking down for the leader of Canada’s New Democrats to show he can offer it, against the man expected to replace Prime Minster Justin Trudeau.

Singh is hopeless as NDP fortunes are sinking in the polls and deservedly so for his aiding and abetting Trudeau.

While on the topic of the Liberal leadership race, we should also talk about another party that’s in dire straits and desperately needs a new leader: the NDP.

When Jagmeet Singh won the leadership in late 2017, he was a breath of fresh air for the frumpy NDP, which had long been associated with socks-with-sandals lefties and equally unfashionable table-pounding union leaders. He was young, diverse, social-media savvy and from outside the Ottawa bubble. As a fashion plate who enjoys the finer things in life, he cut a dash through Ontario provincial politics and the Toronto cultural scene.

But like many first-round draft picks, he flopped in the majors.

The New Democratic Party is struggling, and in order to turn things around, Jagmeet Singh needs to step down as leader—immediately.

Matt Chilliak is a political strategist who’s worked on several NDP campaigns in Saskatchewan and British Columbia, as well as with Democratic candidates in the United States, where he now resides. Photograph courtesy of Matt Chilliak

Singh has led the party through two elections in the past eight years. During that time, the NDP has failed to gain seats. They’ve struggled to break above 20 per cent. And Singh’s own favorability has reached an all-time low.

Jagmeet Singh is about to be relegated to a footnote in Canadian history. And the footnote will probably read like a joke.

We can reasonably expect it to look something like this: “Canada’s scandal-riven Justin Trudeau era, from 2015 to 2024 also contained an odd era for the country’s ‘always a bridesmaid, never a bride’ New Democratic Party, which, from 2017 on, was led by Jagmeet Singh. After leading the party’s fall to fourth-place status in the House of Commons in 2019, Singh entered into a supply and confidence agreement with Trudeau’s minority government in 2022. He was frequently accused of using the agreement to procure his full government pension.