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Like the boy who cried wolf once too often, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is again playing coy about whether he will support Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s latest budget.
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By his non-definitive answers, he’s also raised the possibility the NDP no longer supports the federal fuel charge component of Trudeau’s carbon tax which is scheduled to increase the cost of gasoline, natural gas and 20 other forms of fossil fuel energy every year from now until 2030.
If the NDP refuses to support the Liberal budget, the Trudeau government would fall on a matter of confidence, since the Conservatives, Bloc Québécois and Green parties have all said they’ll vote against it.
Our view is Singh should have pulled the plug on the Trudeau government a long time ago by abandoning the supply and confidence agreement deal he signed with Trudeau in 2022 to keep the Liberals in power until June 2025, if they meet certain NDP demands.
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But Singh is already saying, as he has with past Liberal budgets, that the NDP may support it if the Liberals address NDP concerns such as improving the national disability benefit.
You can bet Trudeau will be all ears on accommodating Singh in order to avoid a snap election, given the Liberals’ dismal polling numbers across Canada.
Interestingly, Ipsos pollster Darrell Bricker floated the idea on ‘X’ Tuesday that Singh should consider defeating the Liberal budget now and forcing a snap election.
He was commenting on a new online Ipsos/Global News poll of 1,000 Canadian adults conducted April 17-18 which showed support for the Conservatives at 43%, Liberals at 24%, NDP at 19%, BQ at 8% (in Quebec only), People’s Party at 4% and the Greens at 2%.
Bricker said based on those numbers in an election where the defining issue could well be the public’s desire to change the federal government, it’s possible the NDP could surpass the Liberals and become the official opposition.
Of course it’s also possible the BQ could become the official opposition.
In our view, while the Trudeau government continues to have the constitutional authority to govern, it lost the moral authority to govern a long time ago.
We urge Singh to pull the plug on it, while being skeptical that he will.
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EDITORIAL: C’mon Jagmeet Singh, bring down the Liberals!
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Like the boy who cried wolf once too often, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is again playing coy about whether he will support Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s latest budget.
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By his non-definitive answers, he’s also raised the possibility the NDP no longer supports the federal fuel charge component of Trudeau’s carbon tax which is scheduled to increase the cost of gasoline, natural gas and 20 other forms of fossil fuel energy every year from now until 2030.
If the NDP refuses to support........
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