Last week we learned that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals would no longer have a guarantee of support from the more progressive New Democratic Party. NDP leader Jagmeet Singh announced he was tearing up the prior agreement though he did not promise to vote against Trudeau if a confidence vote was held. Instead, future votes would be held on a case by case basis.
This was considered pretty weak tea by conservatives eager to see an election to replace Trudeau prior to the one scheduled in the fall of 2025. If you can’t support Trudeau then why not commit to voting no in the next confidence vote right now?
The consensus seems to be that Singh and the NDP made this move in recognition of the fact, based on nearly a year of polling, that Trudeau’s government is going down and they need to create some distance from the whirlpool or they’ll be sucked down with…
