Singh says NDP will vote to bring down Trudeau government

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says his party will bring forward a motion of non-confidence to bring down the Trudeau government in the next sitting of the House of Commons.

The Liberals don’t deserve another chance, Singh wrote in a letter on Friday. That’s why the NDP will vote to bring this government down.

Singh’s letter comes as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shakes up his front bench in the wake of Chrystia Freeland’s sudden resignation from cabinet on Monday.

Singh called on Trudeau to resign after Freeland quit, but he hadn’t been clear about whether his party would vote to bring down the Liberals until Friday.

Despite backing out of a governance agreement with the Liberals this fall, the NDP have voted with the government on a number of confidence motions in the past few months. The most recent confidence motion came in early December, with the Conservatives and Bloc Québécois voting to topple the government.

Singh said in his letter that he would introduce his own confidence motion when the House of Commons meets in the new year — though it is not clear when that would happen or if he would support one of the other opposition parties’ motions.

With all three of the main opposition parties now saying they want the government to fall, it is almost guaranteed the Liberals will lose the next confidence vote.

This article is republished from RCI.