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Bullshitter Singh says he’s still not ready to say if NDP will back budget, holding out for ‘clarity’ on disability benefit

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.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, NDP

Singh says NDP still hasn’t decided whether to support Liberals’ new budget

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.

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

A battle for hope: the brewing campaign clash between the Conservatives and the NDP

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.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Conservative Party, NDP, WTF?

GUNTER: Sinking Liberal fortunes prompting NDP MPs to jump ship

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.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inNDP

Alberta NDP leadership candidates torn about automatic ties to federal party

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?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inNDP

Joe Roberts: NDP’s anti-Israel motion is a moral test for this country

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.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, NDP

“What’s driving New Democrats in the West away from Jagmeet Singh’s NDP” … An outbreak of common sense?

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.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, NDP

Is it time for the Liberals and NDP to break up?

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. 

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

NDP in Alberta and Saskatchewan join forces to push back on federal private member’s bill targeting oil ads

Energy critics within the NDP’s provincial affiliates in Alberta and Saskatchewan are pushing back against MP Charlie Angus’s private member’s bill targeting fossil fuel advertising.

The dispute between provincial and federal New Democrats comes days after two candidates to lead the Alberta NDP expressed openness to loosening the formal ties that bind the party branches.

However, federal party leader Jagmeet Singh said while there may be disagreements on some particular matters, “we’re a large party and that’s a normal thing that happens.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Energy Matters", NDP

Trudeau’s Liberals ‘not pulling the fire alarm’ on NDP deal, health minister says

Health Minister Mark Holland says he has “every confidence” his government can deliver pharmacare legislation by the promised March 1 deadline, and that the Liberals are “not pulling the fire alarm” on their confidence-and-supply deal with the NDP over the issue.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said this week there will be “repercussions” if the Liberals don’t table a sufficient piece of pharmacare framework legislation by next month, and signalled he’ll consider a missed deadline to mean they’ve “walked away” from their confidence-and-supply agreement.

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

‘There’s an opportunity to divorce themselves’: Strategists weigh in on future of Liberal-NDP deal

With NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh putting the Liberals “on notice” that it could be a deal breaker if they don’t deliver on a pharmacare framework by March 1, the weekly panel of political strategists on CTV’s Question Period weigh in on the future of the parties’ confidence-and-supply agreement.

The deal — inked in the spring of 2022 — sees the NDP prop up the Liberals until 2025 in exchange for progress on key policy issues, such as pharmacare.

The parties had initially set the deadline for tabling pharmacare framework legislation for the end of last year, but in December, they pushed back that cut-off date to March 1.

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