BREAKING: If the Liberal-NDP deal goes ahead, Canada would be spared a federal election until 2025. Just in from SusanDelacourt and hscoffield: cdnpoli
The Liberals currently have 159 seats in the House of Commons — just 11 short of the 170 votes they need to guarantee passage of confidence votes. The New Democrats, with 25 seats, would give them the numbers they need.
“The NDP-Liberal coalition is nothing more than a callous attempt by Trudeau to hold on to power,” Bergen said. “Canadians did not vote for an NDP government. This is little more than backdoor socialism. Trudeau is truly polarizing politics which is what he likes. This is an NDP-Liberal attempt at government by blackmail. Nation-building is replaced by vote-buying; secret deal-making over parliamentary debate; and opportunism over accountability.
Sources were saying that other elements of the Liberal-NDP deal could include more resources for housing, reconciliation with Indigenous people and possibly higher taxes on banks and insurance companies, as the NDP was demanding in its opposition motion this week in the House. This isn’t the first time that the Liberals and New Democrats have negotiated a co-operation agreement. Back in 2008, shortly after Stephen Harper’s government won a minority government, the parties worked out a deal — with help from the Bloc Québécois — that would have seen the Conservatives tossed out of power.
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