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.”

  • psvrh@lemmy.ca
    7·
    10 hours ago

    Just to remind everyone: Layton pulled this same stunt, toppling Martin’s government.

    The result was the loss of a number of progressive initiatives Martin’s people were working on, the election of fucking Stephen Harper and the most conservative Canadian political landscape since Borden. Science was suppressed, lslamophobia went from being a dogwhistle to a bullhorn, we narrowly avoided economic catastrophy. Harper even fucked with the Census in an attempt to remake Canada.

    A lot of dippers really idolized Layton, but honestly he was a shameless opportunist and I don’t forgive him for giving us almost a decade of Harper.

    And Singh is pulling the same fucking stunt.

    • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      18 minutes ago

      Do you think it is in Singh’s power to prevent a conservative government? Do you think it was within Layton’s?

    • rbesfe@lemmy.ca
      21·
      8 hours ago

      Poilievre is winning a majority no matter what, I’d rather get it out of the way sooner instead of sitting through another year of ineffective Liberal virtue signalling.

      • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world
        1·
        6 hours ago

        There a good chance PP will just get more conservative votes in already conservative areas and still end up with a minority.

        At that point he’ll have to find another party to work with and he’s already pissed them all off.

        • m0darn@lemmy.ca
          1·
          1 hour ago

          There’s a good chance PP will just get more conservative votes in already conservative areas and still end up with a minority.

          What are you basing this on?

          • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world
            1·
            41 minutes ago

            The way Canadian elections work.

            If more people in rural Alberta vote conservative it won’t add to their seat count but it’ll add to their lead in the polls.

            • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.caEnglish
              11·
              16 minutes ago

              Conservative voters always vote conservative in every election. Progressive voters and swing voters only vote whenever the hell they feel like it. If conservatives are going up in the polls, that means moderates or progressives are intending to vote conservative, not that more conservatives are planning to vote instead of not vote.