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Jagmeet Singh is about to be relegated to a footnote in Canadian history. And the footnote will probably read like a joke.

We can reasonably expect it to look something like this: “Canada’s scandal-riven Justin Trudeau era, from 2015 to 2024 also contained an odd era for the country’s ‘always a bridesmaid, never a bride’ New Democratic Party, which, from 2017 on, was led by Jagmeet Singh. After leading the party’s fall to fourth-place status in the House of Commons in 2019, Singh entered into a supply and confidence agreement with Trudeau’s minority government in 2022. He was frequently accused of using the agreement to procure his full government pension.

Calgary businessman and Dragon’s Den panelist W. Brett Wilson announced he would arrange for private funding for NDP leader Jagmeet Singh if he quit propping up the Trudeau Liberals.

The proposition followed images circulating on social media of Singh getting into a $200,000 vehicle on Parliament Hill. The NDP has backed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau since the 2021 election through a Supply and Confidence Agreement.

h/t Mauser

OTTAWA — Support for federal New Democrats in B.C. and the Prairies is dropping at a “concerning” rate for leader Jagmeet Singh, a new poll suggests, despite recent gains by his provincial counterparts in Manitoba and Saskatchewan.

The Postmedia-Leger poll finds that the NDP’s popularity has dropped two per cent nationally, to 15 per cent, since the last poll on Sept. 30.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh wants you to know that he condemns “the horrific Hamas terror attacks in Israel in which 1,200 people were killed,” as he put it in a statement on Monday, the first anniversary of the October 7 massacre. But Singh also wants you to know that he doesn’t think Israel should do anything about it.

Support for the NDP has now inched ahead of support for the Liberals in some polls, particularly if Quebec results are excluded.

For instance, according to an Abacus Data poll released over the weekend, the NDP (10%) are the fourth party in Quebec behind the Bloc (37%), Liberals (28%) and Conservatives (22%). In the rest of Canada, though, the Conservatives lead with 50% support, followed by the NDP at 22% and the Liberals at just 19%.

OTTAWA—Inside the world of Jagmeet Singh, things are looking pretty swell.

The NDP leader prematurely withdrew from his increasingly perilous alliance with Justin Trudeau’s minority Liberals — after extracting almost everything he wanted from him.

He posted a byelection result he insists proves the New Democrats are more competitive than any other party.