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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."

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[-] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 14 points 5 days ago
[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 5 days ago

Yeah, WTF is he thinking? At least wait until October after we've had a chance to put out the Trump fire a bit.

Hopefully it's a bluff to get Trudeau to resign, but that's not really the typical NDP MO.

[-] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 19 points 5 days 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.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 days ago

With the Conservatives 20 points ahead in polls, it's definitely for worse.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 4 days ago

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

[-] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 11 points 4 days 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.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org -5 points 4 days ago

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

Well, no.

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

[-] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 days ago

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

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org -3 points 4 days 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.

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.

[-] Kichae@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 days 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.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org -4 points 3 days ago

Formal coalition vs. informal support is a distinction without a difference, though.

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