NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says his party will bring forward a motion of non-confidence to bring down the Trudeau government in the next sitting of the House of Commons.

“The Liberals don’t deserve another chance,” Singh wrote in a letter on Friday. “That’s why the NDP will vote to bring this government down.”

  • Value Subtracted
    7•2 months ago

    WTF is he thinking?

    For better or worse, he’s probably reached the point where he thinks they need to cut all remaining ties to the Liberals, and not be seen as propping them up, formally or otherwise.

    • @[email protected]
      0•2 months ago

      And that’s worth a PP government? IMO he’s lost the plot if that’s his entire line of thinking.

      • Value Subtracted
        4•2 months ago

        I’m torn on this.

        On the one hand, I agree that a PP government is a terrible thing.

        On the other hand, it’s hardly the NDP’s job to prop up another political party.

        • @[email protected]
          -5•2 months ago

          You want a two-party system, then. That’s pretty much the only way for parties to never work strategically.

          • @[email protected]English
            4•2 months ago

            No. That’s not what they’re saying at all.

            The NDP is not in government. Trudeau did not form a coalition, he decided to form a single-party cabinet in a hung parliament. This is how this always plays out.If he wanted stability, he could have formed a coalition.

          • Value Subtracted
            3•2 months ago

            Well, no.

            I want a system that’s actually designed to support multiple parties. Westminster ain’t it.

            • Sunshine (she/her)English
              2•2 months ago

              Former British colonies are still suffering from the effects of first-past-the-post.

            • @[email protected]
              -3•2 months ago

              Somebody’s always propping up another party if you’re Germany or Norway or Spain, though, or you don’t have a government. That’s what I mean. We have something like 2.5 parties, so we’re not used to it, but it’s how it’s “supposed” to work.

              • Value Subtracted
                2•2 months ago

                There’s no formal coalition agreement, and I don’t see Trudeau scrambling to offer cabinet posts to NDP MPs.

                The less formal arrangement they had lasted a pretty long time, all things considered.

                But Singh doesn’t owe him anything.