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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.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inNDP

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.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inNDP, 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.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, 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?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, NDP

Jagmeet Singh to NDP caucus: We’ve accomplished basically nothing, so our work here is done

Friends, brothers, sisters, and donors (yes, both of you): we did it.

It has been a long two-and-a-half years: two-and-a-half years of subtle debasement, of quiet humiliation, of trying to explain what, exactly, we’re thinking by propping up a government that we’ve also called “out-of-touch” and ineffective.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, NDP

Jagmeet Singh had a good reason to tear up his deal with Justin Trudeau — and it’s not that he wants an election

It was a marriage of convenience that ended because it was no longer convenient. No need for progressives to shed a tear, or for Liberals to fear the fall of the government, or for Conservatives to celebrate.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh did what he needed to do, what caucus members wanted him to do, what many New Democrats members believed should have been done last year.

No one is buying Singh’s “Man of Principle” tripe.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, NDP

GOLDSTEIN: Singh, Trudeau still joined at the hip because neither wants an election

Don’t be fooled into thinking that NDP leader Jagmeet Singh’s announcement Wednesday that he’s “ripping up” his supply and confidence agreement with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau means Singh wants a snap election.

In the real world, he wants to avoid one given his party’s dismal standing in the polls.

Ditto Trudeau and the Liberals, given that Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives have had a double-digit lead over them in the polls for more than a year.

Breaking 54% of Canadians a little slow … Canadians were slightly supportive of Liberal, NDP deal, new poll shows

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, NDP

FILDEBRANDT: Jagmeet & Justin break up

“If you love something, let it go. If it comes back to you, it is yours. If it doesn’t, it never was.”

It never feels good to be dumped and Justin Trudeau must be sitting alone in his room right now, listening to his go-to breakup playlist. Alas, Jagmeet Singh left him today, ending his de facto coalition, otherwise known by the dry name “supply and confidence agreement.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, NDP

NDP announcing it will tear up governance agreement with Liberals

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

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.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, NDP, WTF?

NDP to have ‘tough conversations’ about its deal with Liberals at coming retreat: MP

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.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, NDP

ANALYSIS: What the NDP Would Lose by Breaking Deal With Liberals

The NDP is facing pressure from the Conservatives to break its agreement with the Liberals and trigger an early election, and doing so would not leave many of its big agenda items on the table, a review of the deal shows.

Major pieces of legislation supported by the NDP have been adopted in the areas of dental care, child care, and energy transition, while the pharmacare bill is in the Senate after clearing the House of Commons in June.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inNDP

Liberals confident sleazy Jagmeet’s lust for a pension will keep them in power

Liberals confident deal with NDP to keep them in power will hold until June

Government House Leader Karina Gould said Tuesday she’s confident the NDP supply-and-confidence agreement that keeps the Liberal government in power will hold until its expected end date in June 2025.

That agreement, first signed in March 2022, allows the government to carry on without fear of falling on a confidence vote. If the two parties abide by the deal, there would be no federal election until next summer at the earliest.

Canada’s fixed-date election law dictates that a vote will happen in October of next year — but the prime minister could call one earlier than that if he wanted.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, NDP, WTF?

Upcoming by-elections may reveal if it’s time for NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh to step down

Everybody is wondering whether Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will step down before the next federal election. They should be asking the same question of Jagmeet Singh. A pair of by-elections next month could reveal whether the time has come for the NDP Leader to depart.

Mr. Singh can take pride in knowing that, thanks to him, Canada has a new national dental care program and the beginnings of national pharmacare. He entered into a supply-and-confidence agreement with the Liberals after the last election on the condition the government implement those programs

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inNDP