“Canada’s Justin Trudeau reaches deal to stay in power until 2025”
Left-leaning NDP agrees to prop up prime minister’s Liberal minority government in exchange for advancing key policies.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/2 ... until-2025
and biden is in his 3rd term in the U.S. White House... “And we’re not going to let the Liberal government off the hook. We’re going to continue to fight hard for people and continue to make sure we hold them to account to deliver these things that people need,” he said.
The NDP has backed the Liberals in key votes since 2019, as the ruling party failed to gain a majority of seats in Parliament in two successive federal elections, the latest of which was held in September.
While the so-called “supply-and-confidence agreement” is not unheard of in Canadian politics, it is unprecedented to have such a deal in writing at the federal level.
The opposition Conservative Party slammed the agreement, saying in a statement on Monday that it was
“a callous attempt by Trudeau to hold on to power”.
i hope this move in Canada isn’t a clue that Ukraine will be yet another long, drawn-out MIC ordeal.
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Canada’s disney-prince PM may be over-estimating his importance. However, he seems to have assessed his future in the polls and decided not to risk it.
If citizens wanted his brand of stability, they could have voted for it.
In the U.S., i’ve read, voters tend to do this in times of crisis.
We see what you did there, PM Trudeau.
Trudeau.
