Dental care, housing money: NDP's Jagmeet Singh says he expects Justin Trudeau will honour their deal in federal budget, Thursday. aballinga has more:
OTTAWA—NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says he is confident — based on briefings that included a conversation with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — that Thursday’s federal budget will honour the deal he made to prop up the Liberal minority government in exchange for action on a suite of progressive policies.
“There’s a strong indication of good faith, because they followed the agreement and provided us with information and a sense of what’s going to happen,” Singh said.The deal includes eight measures the government pledged to act upon this year.
And he is confident the budget will fulfil the pledge in the deal to create a program this year that provides dental care to children 12 and under without insurance coverage for families that make less than $90,000 per year. “I expect the agreement to be honoured, which is good for people. But there will be things that we’re not going to be happy about,” Singh said.
“It’s still the Liberal party governing. They’re going to make decisions that we don’t agree with,” he said. “What we’ve done is forge an agreement to get certain things done and we’re confident that …there will be meaningful action on those things.”
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