September 05, 2024 15:49 GMT
NDP Leader-'Election Now More Likely Than Before'
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Wires carrying comments from Jagmeet Singh, leader of the left-wing New Democratic Party (NDP). Singh says that following his party's withdrawal from a confidence and supply agreement with PM Justin Trudeau's Liberals "an election is now more likely than before".
- Singh says his party would "look at every confidence vote in the Liberal gov't and see what is in the interest of Canadians".
- As we noted earlier (see "CANADA: Trudeau Gov't On Thin Ice After NDP Withdraws From C&S Agreement", 1035BST), should the NDP and main opposition Conservatives vote against the Trudeau gov't in a confidence motion the Quebec-interest Bloc Quebecois would be in the position to cast the deciding votes. This could see the Bloc either bringing the gov't down or looking to earn concessions in exchange for support.
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