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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

Jagmeet Singh is super serious this time

Pity Jagmeet Singh’s communications staff, constantly tasked with finding new language for the same empty threat the NDP Leader has been making for years. Mr. Singh has to sound serious but not be serious; he needs to project resoluteness even though he’s the political equivalent of an accordion, bending in every direction and emitting sounds that appeal only to a very niche subset of people.

Earlier this week, Mr. Singh warned that he will rip up his party’s supply-and-confidence agreement with the Liberals if the government doesn’t meet its deadline to introduce a pharmacare plan.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inNDP

Fake News: NDP threatens stalling tactics, end of agreement with Liberals over slow pace of pharmacare talks

The federal NDP has warned its Parliament Hill staff to prepare themselves for the possible sudden termination of the party’s supply-and-confidence deal with the Liberals — a bipartisan cooperation agreement which may be holding off an early election.

A senior NDP source who was not authorized to speak publicly told CBC News the party held a meeting Tuesday to tell staffers that, with negotiations with the Trudeau Liberals on pharmacare dragging on, the deal could be headed for an early grave.

Garbage Fake News.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inNDP

Rahim Mohamed: Selina Robinson’s ouster shows NDP has no place for Jews who don’t submit

Former British Columbia post-secondary education minister Selina Robinson could not have imagined that when she called what would become Israel in 1948 a “crappy piece of land with nothing on it” in a late January Zoom panel, she’d be setting off an ugly chain of events leading to her departure from Premier David Eby’s cabinet. Her comments were hardly a lie, if impolite, but Robison had made herself a target with the NDP simply for being a Jew who supports Israel.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Anti-Semitism and the Left, Canada, NDP

Bullshit: Deal to prop up Liberals will be off if Ottawa doesn’t meet pharmacare deadline, Singh says

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said Monday his party’s deal to prop up the minority Liberals will be off if Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government doesn’t meet the deadline to introduce long-promised pharmacare legislation.

However, the New Democrat wouldn’t rule out still supporting the government on confidence votes, such as the budget, even if the two parties no longer have a formal deal.

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

NDP MLAs banned from some B.C. mosques after ‘crappy’ land comment from minister

Representatives from more than a dozen British Columbia mosques and Islamic associations have sent a letter to Premier David Eby calling for the minister of post-secondary education to be removed from her role.

They say no NDP MLA or candidate for the next election is welcome in their sacred spaces until the premier takes action against Selina Robinson.

She has faced heavy criticism and calls to resign for days after saying Israel was founded on a “crappy piece of land.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada, NDP, WTF?

Trudeau and Singh’s teams quietly planning electoral reform legislation

As progress on some measures in the Liberal-NDP confidence-and-supply agreement continue to play out publicly, the two parties have quietly been in talks to table electoral reform legislation before the next federal vote.

Leading these negotiations on the political front, are Public Safety, Democratic Institutions and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc, and NDP MP and democratic reform critic Daniel Blaikie.

h/t Mauser

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

Jagmeet Singh has a problem: ‘If the NDP are supporting the Liberals, I can’t support the NDP’

EDMONTON—On the surface, it was a dream canvassing scenario.

As the NDP’s Jagmeet Singh and a group of MPs and supporters knocked on doors in the highly sought-after riding of Edmonton Centre, a middle-aged man and his young adult son spotted the leader from afar and hurried across a strip mall parking lot to say hello.

… “Unfortunately, I just think the country, in the state it’s in right now, means I can’t support the Liberals,” he told the Star.

“And if the NDP are supporting the Liberals, I can’t support the NDP either.”

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

Low-energy Jagmeet Singh is squandering what should be the NDP’s moment

The federal New Democrats recently announced a bit of a leadership shake-up: Anne McGrath, whose many past roles have included chief of staff to Jack Layton and principal secretary to Rachel Notley, is stepping down as party president to become principal secretary for Jagmeet Singh. The press release said the changes were about “building momentum for the next election,” which New Democrats could surely use: Over the last two years the Conservatives have surged to roughly 40 per cent in the polls; the Liberals have tanked to roughly 25 per cent; and the NDP is right where it was before, at 20 per cent or less.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inNDP

NDP’s Jagmeet Singh rules out coalition government with Liberals after next election

OTTAWA – NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is ruling out the possibility of forming a coalition government with the Liberals if no party wins a clear majority after the next federal election.

“That’s off the table,” Singh said in a year-end interview with The Canadian Press, even though the two parties have been working closely together.

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

Could some policy wins lift the NDP’s political fortunes?

The NDP is hoping to translate policy success into political success when some key elements of their supply-and-confidence agreement with the Liberals roll out in 2024 — but one polling analyst says the party’s numbers don’t seem to be budging.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh told CBC News Network’s Power & Politics that his main goal is to push for policies that help Canadians. But he conceded that he hopes the NDP can get some credit for some of the government’s recent policy moves.

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

Federal NDP is squandering moment to insist on pharmacare plan

Pharmacare, it seems, is doomed. For a while, it appeared that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s minority Liberal government, backed by Jagmeet Singh’s New Democrats, might create a national drug scheme that was both universal and public.

Indeed, creation of a real pharmacare program was the NDP’s price for keeping the Trudeau minority government alive. The party’s rank and file made that clear, most recently at their national convention held in Hamilton in October.

This will be as close as Singh ever gets to real power. He’s going to enjoy the ride and qualify for his pension.

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