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Future of the Liberal Government hinges on Jagmeet Singh and his NDP
The Conservatives have declared they are bringing their third no-confidence motion next week to unseat the Trudeau government.
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Jagmeet Singh and his NDP party are in the news again. This time around, the main Opposition Party, the Conservatives, in an attempt to bring down the minority Liberal Government, has thought of a novel way of using Singh for the purpose.
While Jagmeet Singh recently claimed credit for helping the Liberals pass a two-month tax holiday bill, the Conservatives have been targeting him for bailing out Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Cabinet during no-confidence motions. Singh is the only leader of South-Asian descent to head any major political party in Canada.
The Conservatives have declared they are bringing their third no-confidence motion next week to unseat the Trudeau government. The thrust of the no-confidence will be a statement the NDP leader, Jagmeet Singh, made while tearing down the supply and confidence agreement with the Liberals.
The proposed motion, that Conservatives leader and the Leader of Opposition, Pierre Poilievre shared on X, quotes Singh as saying the Liberals caved into corporate greed when they ordered binding arbitration in the labor dispute involving the country's two largest rail yards.
The motion concludes with a call for members to declare they agree with the NDP leader and for the House of Commons to "proclaim it has lost confidence in the prime minister and the government".
Meanwhile, the Leader of the House, Karina Gould, announced she would be seeking unanimous consent to schedule opposition days for the Conservatives and the NDP next week. The Canadian Parliamentary procedures mandate a proportion of House-sitting days to opposition parties called Opposition days to introduce their motions.
No opposition days have been held since early October because the House has been bogged down in debate over a matter of privilege.
Gould's office says it is still waiting to hear from the other parties.
As of now, the Opposition parties have four more days to introduce their motions, before December 10. The Conservatives have pledged to try and bring down the government at every opportunity. If the majority of the House of Commons votes in favor of the third non-confidence motion, it would likely trigger an immediate election.
“I agree with Jagmeet Singh that the Trudeau government is ‘greedy’ and ‘anti-worker.’ Now, Jagmeet Singh will have a chance to vote for a non-confidence motion made up entirely of his own words,” Poilievre posted X a day after the House passed a bill to give Canadians a two-month holiday on the federal sales tax.
Poilievre also quotes Singh’s previous comments that the Liberals are “too weak, too selfish, and too beholden to corporate interests to fight for people”, and that they will “always cave to corporate greed and always step in to make sure unions have no power”.
The language of the new no-confidence motion is part of the statement Singh made while canceling the NDP’s supply and confidence agreement with the Liberals in September. The agreement would have propped up the government until June 2025 in exchange for action on certain NDP priorities.
“Therefore, the House agrees with the NDP leader and the House proclaims it has lost confidence in the prime minister and the government,” the motion concludes.
After Parliament resumed its post-summer sittings, the Conservatives had two unsuccessful non-confidence motions. The first was defeated on Sept. 25 by the Liberals, NDP, Bloc Québécois, and the Greens.
In the following week, the Conservatives attempted a second no-confidence motion criticizing the Liberal government for its policies that increased the cost of housing and food while calling it the most “centralized government in Canadian history.” That motion was defeated on Oct. 1.
For a non-confidence motion to succeed, the Conservatives need Bloc and NDP support. The Conservatives have 119 members, Bloc Quebecois 33, and NDP 25. The Liberals have 153 MPs and with support from either the Bloc or NDP, they garner enough votes needed to defeat the motion.
Back in September, Bloc Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet announced that the Liberals would need to support two private members’ bills of the Bloc before Oct. 29 or the party would begin talks with other parties to bring down the government. The deadline passed without either bill being passed, leading Blanchet to say the Liberal government was “seriously in danger of falling.”
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