By vl04 - Flickr, Justin Trudeau at the 2015 Vancouver "Pride" Parade
CV NEWS FEED // After years of supporting the embattled government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the leader of a Canadian political party announced Friday that he plans to vote to bring that government down.
Jagmeet Singh, who leads the left-wing New Democratic Party (NDP), wrote in an open letter to Canadians: “Justin Trudeau failed in the biggest job a prime Minister has: to work for people, not the powerful.”
“The Liberals don’t deserve another chance,” Singh added, referring to Trudeau’s party.
“That’s why the NDP will vote to bring this government down, and give Canadians a chance to vote for a government who will work for them,” he continued. “No matter who is leading the Liberal Party, this government’s time is up.”
Singh elaborated that the NDP “will put forward a clear motion of non-confidence in the next sitting of the House of Commons,” which will resume in January of the new year.
Canada’s next federal election must be held no later than October 20, 2025 – however, Singh’s vow to vote for “non-confidence” in Trudeau’s government almost certainly means that one will occur before this deadline, most likely in the early half of 2025.
The latest opinion polls show that Trudeau’s Liberal Party is poised for a historic landslide defeat.
A Mainstreet Research poll from last week showed the opposition Conservative Party, led by Pierre Polievre, well ahead with 48% of the vote nationwide – compared to only 19% for the Liberals and 15% for Singh’s leftist NDP.
Trudeau and Singh had a years-long “confidence and supply” agreement that ran from 2022 until Singh decided to end it in September. The agreement, while not an outright coalition, allowed Trudeau’s party to remain in power despite not having a majority of the seats.
Trudeau is a self-professed Catholic who supports abortion and the LGBTQ movement.
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On Monday, Trudeau’s Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland abruptly resigned from his Cabinet – a move that sources say “blindsided” Trudeau’s camp.
Before her resignation, Freeland was widely touted as a potential successor to Trudeau as Liberal Party leader, a position the controversial prime minister has served in since 2013.
In the wake of Freeland’s resignation – and days before Singh’s announcement – former House Speaker Newt Gingrich speculated that President-elect Donald Trump may have played a role in the decline of the Trudeau era in Canada.
“I mean, he may have broken Trudeau’s government in the last three days because Trudeau’s strongest ally resigned in disgust at how Trudeau had caved in to Trump,” Gingrich told FOX News’ Sean Hannity. “And literally, I think Trudeau may lose a vote of confidence in Canada.”
On Monday, The Washington Examiner reported:
Compounding the problem for Trudeau is the fact that Trump has threatened to levy a hefty 25% tariff on Canadian imports that would likely exacerbate Canada’s existing economic crisis that has lined up Trudeau’s Liberal Party for an electoral drubbing of biblical proportions.
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The Examiner’s report further attributed Freeland’s stunning and sudden resignation to “what were reportedly disagreements over how the Trudeau government should respond to Trump’s tariff threats.”
“In more ways than one, Trump is responsible for the parade of problems that Trudeau is facing,” added The Examiner:
The president-elect gleefully made a show of having dinner with Trudeau at Mar-a-Lago, with the Canadian premier giving the appearance of a groveling beggar desperately trying to ease tensions with the leader of his nation’s largest trading partner.
