OTTAWA — Riding a wave of anger and frustration with high grocery prices, the New Democrats will force a vote in the House of Commons on a motion to tax the excess profits of large grocers, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh announced Tuesday.
The non-binding vote, expected in the coming weeks, comes as concerns with the cost of living have soured public opinion on grocery store chains — and Justin Trudeau’s government.
New Democrats say they’re rolling out a new line of attack against the Conservatives as their leader Pierre Poilievre targets NDP-held ridings.
On Tuesday, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh started dropping a new line — “The price of Pierre Poilievre” — an echo of Poilievre’s frequent references to what he calls the “Liberal-NDP costly coalition.”
The party is also pushing for passage of the pharmacare bill — C-64, one of the centrepieces of its confidence and supply deal with the Liberals — before Parliament rises for the summer. The party says it wants to use it and other policy wins to advance its strategy.
Popular Port Coquitlam Mayor Brad West, whose life was shaped by the labour movement, is worried by what’s happening to the party that once stood staunchly for blue-collar workers.
Not long ago West was a political staffer and campaign worker for Mike Farnworth, the longtime NDP MLA for Port Coquitlam and now minister of public safety. And Farnworth recently suggested in the legislature that West should be his successor.
The NDP abandoned those icky working class people long ago.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says he’s still not ready to say whether his caucus will support the federal budget, citing a need for further “clarity” over whether the Liberals intend to address concerns surrounding the Canada Disability Benefit program.
Speaking to reporters on Parliament Hill on Monday, as MPs resume debate on the 2024 financial plans, Singh said that while his caucus “fought hard” to ensure the budget included relief for Canadians such as new renter protections, a national school food program, and diabetes and contraception coverage, the government didn’t go far enough in other areas.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said Monday his party still hasn’t decided whether it will vote in favour of the federal budget introduced last week.
The New Democrats have an agreement in place to back the governing Liberal Party on confidence and budgetary votes in exchange for movement on key policy priorities.
The agreement is set to last until June of next year, but Singh has been coy on whether he supports the Liberals’ most recent budget.
Singh expensed more than $500,000 over nine months to run his constituency office; Poilievre charged $143,201
That is so socialist.
h/t Mauser
OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s path to power may be by prosecuting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s past eight years in government, but his road to victory is painted NDP orange.
Appealing to working-class voters in rural and northern ridings — like those held by New Democrats across British Columbia and Liberals in northern Ontario — is part of what Poilievre sees as a winning formula.
In Alberta, 1993 was mockingly referred to as the ‘Year of the Family’ for Conservative MPs.
At the end of the Mulroney era, with Kim Campbell as their unpopular new leader, the province’s incumbent Tory MPs could see the writing on the wall. With Preston Manning and the Reform party on the rise, many sitting Progressive Conservatives imagined it was time to leave politics before voters tossed them out.
NDP MPs Charlie Angus, Carol Hughes and Rachel Blaney all announced Thursday that they will not be seeking re-election.
“After seven elections, 20 years of service in Parliament, and the privilege of being the longest-serving MP in Timmins history, it is time to pass the baton,” Angus wrote in a social media post on Thursday.
What began as a race to pick a new leader for Alberta’s Opposition NDP has triggered a broader existential debate over why being provincially orange must automatically tie you to the federal brand.
According to party constitutions, members of a provincial NDP are automatically members of the federal party.
It’s a linkage that caused headaches for Alberta’s NDP when it was in government from 2015 to 2019 and continues to prove politically problematic as it seeks to wrest power from Premier Danielle Smith’s United Conservatives in 2027.
Who wants anything to do with Singh?
It’s become crystal clear why there have been four ministers of foreign affairs in the past five years under the Trudeau government: it is are a rudderless ship with no vision for how Canada should be represented on the world stage. The prime minister’s leadership has been catastrophic for Canadian foreign policy.
The Liberals have failed to meet our NATO commitments, leaving our allies questioning our ability and our resolve. They’ve failed to stand with our Israeli allies, who are facing an existential threat. They’ve left Canada’s image degraded, tarnished and nearing the point of total collapse.
New Democrats are bringing a motion to Parliament on March 18th and demanding Justin Trudeau takes a stand.
Add your voice to the calls, ahead of the vote.
Fill Justin Trudeau's inbox and demand he does the right thing.https://t.co/McNjppaBIW
— Jagmeet Singh (@theJagmeetSingh) March 16, 2024
h/t SweetPea
Earlier this week, Edmonton MLA Rakhi Pancholi said that buying a membership in the party she hopes to lead — the Alberta NDP — should not automatically bring a membership in the party Jagmeet Singh leads — the federal NDP — as it does now.
And even before that, the Alberta NDP and Saskatchewan NDP took it upon themselves to issue a joint statement denouncing a proposal made by federal NDP MP Charlie Angus that New Democrats in those two provinces saw as an unhelpful and inappropriate anti-oil-and-gas idea.
The deal between Justin Trudeau’s Liberals and Jagmeet Singh’s New Democrats has already lasted longer than most minority governments in Canadian history.
Within a matter of days, that deal will either collapse or carry on — depending on whether the two sides can come to some kind of agreement to bring pharmacare to Canada.
Two questions hang over that fork in the road for the two parties. Can the deal last? Beyond that, though, should the deal continue?
Is it possible for the NDP to steal Liberal seats next election?
Would that possibility be aided by keeping this sorry alliance together thus earning goodwill from LPC voters looking for a new home?
Both Trudeau and Singh are preening virtue signalers with grating personalities. Canada has had enough of both.
CALGARY — The race to succeed Rachel Notley as Alberta NDP leader is heating up, with three high-profile MLAs announcing runs over the past week. Yet the biggest name cited as a possible contender for the job, former Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi, remains on the sidelines for now.
