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Robert Libman: Montreal byelection could spell end for Trudeau and Singh

Despite all the media speculation, the leadership discussion within the federal Liberal caucus has so far remained pretty much bottled up inside the party, with public comments about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau relatively mitigated. But the bottle could pop after Monday night, depending on results of the byelection in the Liberal stronghold of LaSalle—Émard—Verdun, left vacant with the resignation of former justice minister David Lametti.

This should be most concerning for the Liberals and NDP.

Among those who say they are certain to vote, the Conservative lead widens to 26-points.

CPC 47%
LPC 21%
NDP 19%https://t.co/YZPMqtDRwT pic.twitter.com/ehHtSiN77n

— David Coletto (@DavidColetto) September 15, 2024

h/t Mauser

by Blazingcatfur•September 15, 2024September 15, 2024•0•Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, NDP

Data Dive with Nik Nanos: Will the Liberals’ stumbles result in an orange crush for the NDP?

Will there be another political orange crush? Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh sure hopes so.

In 2011, the New Democratic Party of Canada, led by Jack Layton, became the Official Opposition in the House of Commons in a stunning orange surge. The historic win coincided with a Conservative victory and a Liberal collapse.

by Blazingcatfur•September 13, 2024September 13, 2024•0•NDP

Trudeau says Singh, NDP ‘caved’ to political pressure in fight against climate change

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau slammed the NDP and its leader Jagmeet Singh on Friday, saying that while they may care about the environment, they have “no idea what to do in the fight against climate change.”

At a news conference in the Montreal suburb of Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Que., Trudeau accused the NDP of “playing simple politics” and “walking away from progressive values” after it ended its confidence-and-supply agreement with the Liberals last week.

by Blazingcatfur•September 13, 2024September 13, 2024•0•Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Green-Scam, NDP, WTF?

‘You cannot take us for granted’: Muslim voters mobilize as Jagmeet Singh’s polarizing Gaza stance will get tested in this byelection

MONTREAL—The front window of the NDP’s campaign office in LaSalle—Émard—Verdun features a small selection of flags.

Some represent countries, like Ukraine and Sudan, that are currently mired in conflict. Others represent Indigenous rights and LGBTQ2+ causes.

The Palestinian flag, the largest of the set, is affixed above them all.

I bet we have a Hamas party soon.

by Blazingcatfur•September 12, 2024September 12, 2024•0•"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, NDP

Ryan Painter: Is this Jagmeet Singh’s swan song?

When Jagmeet Singh recorded his video declaring he had “ripped up the supply-and-confidence agreement,” it felt like the most decisive move he had made in a very long time.

I don’t see it happening on his say so.

by Blazingcatfur•September 12, 2024September 12, 2024•0•Canada, NDP

Singh suddenly discovers the Carbon Tax is a bad thing!

Singh signals NDP plan to oppose carbon tax, says it puts burden on ‘backs of working people’

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh signalled his party is planning to oppose the current carbon tax on Canadian consumers, saying the party is working on an alternative climate plan ahead of the next election campaign.
Mr. Singh made the comments Thursday as he wrapped up three days of caucus meetings in Montreal ahead of Parliament’s return Monday.

by Blazingcatfur•September 12, 2024September 12, 2024•0•NDP, WTF?

Upcoming federal byelections will put Singh and the NDP brand to the test

While an upcoming byelection in Montreal is being viewed as a test of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s leadership, the same could be said for NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh — whose party is trying to hang on to one seat while fighting to take another away from the Liberals.

The NDP is holding a caucus meeting in Montreal on Tuesday. New Democrats likely will use the opportunity to discuss plans for the upcoming parliamentary session in the wake of the party’s move to pull out of its confidence-and-supply agreement with the Liberals last week.

by Blazingcatfur•September 10, 2024September 10, 2024•0•NDP

Jagmeet Singh, you need an issue voters can rally behind and I have just the thing

One has to give full marks to NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh for recognizing that Einstein was right when he defined “insanity” as “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

Having clawed his way up a few percentage points from the high teens his party polled in the 2021 election, Singh is clearly annoyed at his inability to breakout of the 20 per cent support range, as per the latest Nanos poll.

This would have been a bread and butter issue for the old left.

by Blazingcatfur•September 9, 2024September 9, 2024•0•NDP

Jagmeet Singh opens the Jack Layton playbook for a longshot election gamble

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.

by Blazingcatfur•September 7, 2024September 6, 2024•0•NDP

John Ivison: Jagmeet Singh pivots from losing to Liberals to losing to Conservatives

Jagmeet Singh had a valid response when he was asked at a press conference in Toronto on Thursday whether the confidence-and-supply agreement he signed with Justin Trudeau’s Liberals had been worth it.

The NDP leader said that when he thinks about the deal he remembers two people: Brianna, a mother of five kids who was able to take them to the dentist for the first time; and, Sue, a cancer survivor who had lost her teeth in treatment and burst into tears when the dentist told her he was going to give her back her smile.

by Blazingcatfur•September 6, 2024September 6, 2024•0•NDP

Singh can say what he’d like, but there’s only one winner in his breakup with the Liberals

The rooster crowed three times …

Which doesn’t hold a candle to the cock who crowed 13 times (in English, didn’t count the French) on Thursday morning about ripping up the NDP-Liberal pre-nup that has kept Prime Minister

Justin Trudeau’s minority government in trembly power for the last 30 months.

That bromance between Trudeau and NDP Leader Jameet Singh — always an awkward marriage of convenience — has been crushed underfoot.

by Blazingcatfur•September 6, 2024September 6, 2024•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, NDP

Chris Selley: The NDP ends a defective deal, but its defective leader remains

So, the deal is off. NDP leader Jagmeet Singh apparently located a few scraps of dignity in some long-forgotten kitchen drawer or closet. Just minutes before Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was set for a press conference to give himself yet more credit for the NDP’s national school-lunch program, Singh announced he was calling off the NDP’s two-and-a-half-year-old confidence-and-supply agreement with the governing Liberals.

#Exclusive: Former #Canada Health Minister on Mirror Now

“The split between the 2 political parties is a normal thing, this minority govt has lived a long life. Jagmeet Singh is a Khalistani sympathizer…”: @ujjaldosanjh, Ex-Canada Health Min#BeyondTheHeadline | @SnehaMKoshy pic.twitter.com/gKRNGZBrHL

— Mirror Now (@MirrorNow) September 5, 2024

by Blazingcatfur•September 6, 2024September 5, 2024•0•NDP

Jagmeet Singh says challenge ahead is convincing people NDP can win

OTTAWA — Jagmeet Singh brought a message of hope Thursday in his first speech following the NDP’s exit from its supply and confidence deal with the minority Liberals, who portrayed his move as a bow to Conservative wishes.

New Democrats are attempting to paint themselves as a legitimate alternative to the Liberals and Conservatives ahead of the next election, but Singh acknowledged one his party’s biggest challenges will be persuading Canadians it can actually form government.

“Like many of you, all my life I have been told, it can’t be done. Cynics will say: Canada has never had an NDP government, it’s not going to happen,” Singh said in a campaign-style address.

by Blazingcatfur•September 6, 2024September 5, 2024•0•NDP, WTF?

Singh decision about cutting NDP ties to Trudeau, not an election prelude

There was likely no New Democrat more relieved to learn that federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh had ripped up his deal with Justin Trudeau than Saskatchewan’s NDP Leader Carla Beck.

Beck is in a tough election fight this fall, trying to break the hold on power that the conservative Saskatchewan Party has held on that province since 2007.

Singh is very nearly as toxic as Trudeau and that state will not be mitigated with time and forgetting.

by Blazingcatfur•September 6, 2024September 5, 2024•0•Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, NDP

FORSETH: And so, twelve months of tenterhooks…

Leader Jagmeet Singh has terminated the ‘supply-and-confidence agreement’ his party made with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government. The end of the deal, which was scheduled to run until June 2025, was announced via social media at mid-day today.

Singh based his comments on what appears to be complete falsehoods about Liberal greed and the cuts to programs he claims that the Conservatives plan to make. As a former MPO, I recognize these as typical deflection lies rooted in their politics of envy and resentment.

Why now, though?

by Blazingcatfur•September 5, 2024September 5, 2024•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, NDP