The NDP has pulled out of a confidence and supply agreement with the Liberals. What happens now?
In March 2022, the Liberals and NDP penned a deal that would keep the minority government led by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in power until June 2025 and move ahead on some mutually agreeable policies. It was called a confidence and supply agreement.
As Ontario’s post-secondary institutions come to grips with a far-reaching federal cap on international student approvals, internal provincial documents reveal that the Ford government was aware that colleges and universities had an “over-reliance” on overseas students as a way to make up for budget deficits.
The documents, obtained by Global News, also gave the Minister of Colleges and Universities a dire snapshot of the life of international students in Ontario, highlighting the lack of existing services for students who are dealing with “intensive feelings of isolation.”
Follow the money always.
The government’s national security review agency has dismissed a complaint alleging the RCMP entrapped a Canadian imprisoned in the United States for plotting ISIS attacks.
The National Security and Intelligence Review Agency found the RCMP had conducted a “good faith investigation” into Abdulrahman El Bahnasawy, a Toronto-area resident.
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.
Canada-based activist and former PFLP official Khaled Barakat said in an August 19, 2024 broadcast on Al-Manar TV (Hizbullah-Lebanon) that revoking the charitable status of the Jewish National Fund is an “important victory,” but is “not enough,” it should be criminalized.
Canada-Based Activist and Former PFLP Official Khaled Barakat on Hizbullah TV: Revoking the Charitable Status of the Jewish National Fund Is an Important Victory for the Resistance following October 7, But It’s Not Enough – JNF Should Be Criminalized @JNFUSA @JNFca pic.twitter.com/236eq16npN
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) September 1, 2024
“Canada based” – The faceless unaccountable bureaucrats and our Canada hating pols should be in shackles for inviting mohammedan settlers.
It now appears likely that Canada and the United States are having a so-called soft landing and will avoid a recession, and that the worst of inflation is over and is coming down to manageable proportions. However, it should be remembered that the management of the COVID pandemic produced a profound recession—replete with immeasurable psychological damage, economic dislocation to many, and deterioration in education standards—that produced an unnecessary recession. This was a generous gift to the People’s Republic of China which exported the COVID pandemic and greatly profited from it, despite the extreme severity with which Beijing repressed the pandemic within its own borders. And while it is true that the rate of inflation has now been very substantially reduced, it is also true that there was no excuse for the rate of inflation to have jumped as it did in the last five years.
Timing is everything in politics.
If New Democratic Party (NDP) leader Jack Layton had not emerged as the clear winner of the 2011 federal leaders’ English language debate in Canada, the Liberal Party may have had a chance to regroup and stop the Conservative Party from forming a majority government.
If a televised debate had not aired so early on CNN in the presidential electoral season this year, Democratic Party supporters in the United States would not have realized that Joe Biden had to be replaced as their nominee.
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.
More than 50 Liberal ministerial staffers, mostly of Muslim and Arab origin, are refusing to volunteer in the LaSalle-Émard-Verdun by-election because they object to their own party’s stand on the conflict in Gaza, revealing how deeply that conflict is tearing at the Liberal Party.
And while this speaks to the internal division of a tired government, it also reveals how starkly polarized Canadians have become over the Middle East.
We know what side Trudeau is on.
After a legal battle that lasted more than a decade, a former public servant has won a settlement of $1.5 million from the federal government.
“I almost died a few times, close to suicide,” Chris Hughes told National Post. “It was a huge weight off my shoulders.”
OTTAWA – New Democrats and Conservatives have both launched television ads that attempt to define Tory Leader Pierre Poilievre to union voters, a group politicians see as having increased power in the next federal election.
The commercial the New Democrats launched across the country last week featured union leaders describing Poilievre as a career politician who “has never been a worker and never stood with workers.” Images include shots of party Leader Jagmeet Singh on picket lines in various locales throughout the country.
Singh? Mr. Rolex? A champion of labour?
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau harshly condemned the killings of six Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza.
I expect all remaining hostages to be freed and all Hamas leaders to surrender after this.
If Kamala Harris’s campaign to become president of the United States is so far a matter of joyful vibes, then they’ve certainly been felt in Canada. Two thirds of Canadians told a recent survey they hold favourable views of the vice president, and a third say they’re relieved by the apparently revived challenge she and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz pose to the Republican ticket.
But although much of this enthusiasm is likely driven by a parallel dislike of former president Donald Trump (three-quarters of respondents), it might also be contributing to the perception that the Harris-Walz Democratic ticket will be especially good for Canada.
100-year-old downtown Oshawa church vandalized
Justin would be firing up the jet to make it to Oshawa before sundown if this was a mosque.
OTTAWA — Conservatives are doubling down on the party’s appeals to “ordinary people” this Labour Day Monday with a multi-pronged advertising campaign designed to woo workers.
A 60-second television ad celebrates “the people who rise when it is still dark” and describes a litany of problems that plague them, including crime, inflation and unaffordable housing. The ad ends on a hopeful note, with a voiceover from Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre describing a “new dawn rising” where “everyone gets a fair shot at a good life.”
338 Sunday Update: The NDP is in trouble.
🔵CPC 210
🔴LPC 81
⚜️BQ 34
🟠NDP 16
🟢GPC 2[172 seats needed for a majority]
My latest ↓ https://t.co/qDioskNw26
— Philippe J. Fournier (@338Canada) September 1, 2024
