One’s words matter. Or at least they should.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh recently told Canadians he ripped up his supply and confidence agreement with Justin Trudeau. He said the Liberals are too weak, too selfish, and too beholden to corporate interests to fight for people.
Speaking to workers before the Liberals violated their right to strike, Singh also said that if there was any vote in Parliament that in any way impacted workers’ rights, he and his NDP would vote against it, whether it was a vote of confidence or not.
Yet that is exactly what happened in Parliament when Jagmeet Singh and his NDP voted against a Conservative non-confidence motion written with Singh’s own words:
(i) whereas the Leader of the New Democratic Party said he “ripped up” his supply and confidence agreement with the Liberal government,
(ii) whereas the NDP Leader said, “the Liberals are too weak, too selfish and too beholden to corporate interests to fight for people”,
(iii) whereas the NDP Leader said, “the Liberal government will always cave to corporate greed, and always step in to make sure the unions have no power”, in response to the Liberal Labour Minister’s referrals to the Canadian Industrial Relations Board that ordered the workers of Teamsters Canada Rail Conference and the ILWU 514 to resume their duties, violating their right to strike”,
therefore, the House agrees with the NDP Leader, and the House proclaims it has lost confidence in the Prime Minister and the government.
Instead of giving Canadians a carbon tax election, Singh and his NDP instead voted with Liberal MPs to keep Trudeau in power until Singh gets his $2.3 million taxpayer-funded pension next year. They did so, knowing that union workers asked the NDP to support the Common Sense Conservative motion.
Jagmeet Singh doesn’t care that his costly coalition with Trudeau has devastated Canadians’ paycheques. He has stood by and supported Trudeau as their government doubled housing costs while making families pay $800 more for food in 2025 than they did in 2024.
With the NDP-Liberal costly coalition, Trudeau gets power, Singh gets his pension, and Canadians get the bill.
I and my Conservative colleagues will not stop fighting to deliver a carbon tax election where Canadians can finally vote for a government that brings home lower prices for Canadians.
Randy Hoback is the Conservative Party MP for Prince Albert.
