The end of the Trudeau-Singh Deal

[dewline]

Dammit.

Does my preferred political party have to keep shooting themselves in the foot and expecting that foot to not go to pieces?

Comments

[blogcutter]

I don't honestly think this is an unmitigated disaster. A lot of NDP supporters thought it was a bad idea to get into the supply-and-confidence deal in the first place. Now that it's ended, it might give the NDP party faithful a new respect for their leader, and garner more NDP supporters amongst the undecided electorate.. Yes, Poilievre will very likely call for a vote of non-confidence, but how much support will he ultimately get? His own party members certainly, and a some rogue Liberal backbenchers but in general, Trudeau seems pretty good at surrounding himself with yes-people.

I'm not sure how much difference averting an election now would do to the ultimate outcome of an election once we reach the fixed election date, but I live in hope!

I guess we'll just have to wait and see what happens.

[agoodwinsmith]

Well, Singh needed to do it sometime in order to have any chance of campaigning as a viable candidate and not a puppet of another party. It doesn't stop continued mutual benefit.

[dewline]

Based on what happened when it was Layton vs. Harper, I fear that stop is coming quicker than it should.

[flemmings]

Exactly.

[sabotabby]

I think we're fucked either way.

[arlie]

My once a week reading of CBC hasn't kept me plugged into the Canadian political scene to even know about the deal that was.

[thewayne]

At least our liberal party is finally slamming the RNC more effectively this year. I hope they can keep it up in election cycles to come.