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Canada: NDP ends confidence deal with the federal liberals (bnnbloomberg.ca)
7 points by voisin 5 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



Pretty much symbolic at this point. Doesn't mean NDP will vote against Liberals in a confidence vote in the future. Feels like it would even be self sabotaging to do it now since some of the legislation around dental, pharma and others that they pushed for are still being rolled out. Plus with the way polls are looking I doubt they would force an election to likely bring in a more conservative government.


I think they are afraid of going down with the Liberal ship, and the longer Trudeau stays as leader of the Liberals, the worse the coalition looks and the more the Conservatives win. I think failing to vote no-confidence to replace Trudeau would be a major mistake for the NDP. Symbolism won’t be rewarded in the next election (I think one of Trudeau’s major mistakes is how focused he’s been on symbolism at a time when the average Joe just wants tangible action to get his life back on track).




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