New Democrats are huddling in Montreal to strategize a new path forward ahead of the fall parliamentary session — one that doesn’t include the Liberals at their hips and ideally makes them a credible alternative to the Conservatives at the next election. The three-day caucus retreat kicking off Tuesday comes less than a week after … Read more
The Liberal government will still work on policies it promised to pursue under its now-defunct deal with the NDP, Health Minister Mark Holland said Monday. A week ago, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh ended the pact between the New Democrats and the minority Liberals, before some of the measures they agreed to work on had come to fruition. … Read more
The New Democrats used a stock image from Russia in a recent video, weeks after the party criticized the Conservatives for doing the same. On Wednesday NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh announced in a video message that he was ending the supply and confidence deal with the Liberal government, while accusing Conservative policies of hurting Canadians, … Read more
As soon as NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh announced he had “ripped up” the supply and confidence agreement with the Liberal government Wednesday, one big question loomed above all others: will Canadians face a snap election this year? No one seems to know for sure — not even Singh himself. “I know this now means that … Read more
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said a supply-and-confidence agreement between his party and the Liberal government “accomplished a lot” a day after pulling the plug on the deal. In a press conference in Toronto on Thursday, Singh touted the dental-care program for low-income Canadians and the national pharmacare that were agreed upon under the Liberal—NDP deal. … Read more
There was likely no New Democrat more relieved to learn that federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh had ripped up his deal with Justin Trudeau than Saskatchewan’s NDP Leader Carla Beck. Beck is in a tough election fight this fall, trying to break the hold on power that the conservative Saskatchewan Party has held on that … Read more
The federal New Democrats have pulled their support from the supply-and-confidence agreement with the Liberal government. The move puts Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s minority at risk of falling at any time in the coming weeks or months if it loses any confidence votes, which could trigger a snap election as soon as this fall. NDP … Read more
Federal Conservatives and New Democrats agree on very little, but one point of consensus has emerged in recent months — labour issues will play a key role in the next federal election. Both parties have launched television ads that attempt to define Tory Leader Pierre Poilievre to union voters, a group politicians see as having … Read more
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is asking the New Democrats and Bloc Québécois to stop supporting the minority government and force an early election, saying Liberal policies are making life less affordable for Canadians. “Canadians cannot afford another painful, costly, chaotic and corrupt year of Justin Trudeau,” he said at a press conference in Ottawa on Thursday morning. … Read more
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre opens a week of campaigning for votes in Northern Ontario on Monday with a rally in Fort Frances, Ont., in the riding of Thunder Bay—Rainy River, a region that a small-c conservative candidate has not won since 1930. The incumbent MP for the riding, a Liberal and former emergency room physician … Read more
