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NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh has decided to end the supply-and-confidence agreement that has been keeping Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s minority Liberal government in power.
The agreement, first signed in March 2022, was meant to last until June 2025, but Singh has cut it short, saying the Liberals have let people down and don’t deserve another chance from Canadians.
Singh announced on social media that he believes the Liberals are “too weak” and “too selfish” to fight for the middle class and stop the Conservatives.
The announcement paves the way for the Trudeau Liberals to be defeated in a non-confidence motion in the House of Commons. Any bill to carry that weight would have to be declared as such. Should the government lose the vote on the bill, they would fall, triggering an election.
In response, Hastings-Lennox and Addington MP Shelby Kramp-Neuman shared that “Functionally, nothing has changed. My Conservative colleagues and I are the only party that has been cautioning against the Liberal governments irresponsible governance and economic mismanagement from the start. We are the only party that has stood firm against every single Liberal policy that the NDP are now admitting is harming Canadians.”
“What Jagmeet Singh and his NDP caucus seem to be forgetting is that they voted for every single one of those policies as a part of their confidence and supply agreement by approving various budgets and fall economic statements. It is shocking and quite frankly insulting to Canadians for them to now, as a result of abysmal polling numbers, turn around and try to absolve themselves of the very real role they played in their agreement with the Liberals. As the late, great, Brian Mulroney once famously said; “You had an option, sir — to say ‘no’ — and you chose to say ‘yes’ to the old attitudes and the old stories of the Liberal Party. That sir, if I may say respectfully, that is not good enough for Canadians.”
The 45th Canadian federal election will take place on or before October 20th, 2025.