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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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[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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 5 points 23 hours ago

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

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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 -1 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours 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.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 6 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Well, no.

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

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 5 points 20 hours ago

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

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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.