If you want to know what’s really going on in Ottawa these days, talk to an NDP MP
Will the government commit to the housing and dental-care policies the NDP has been championing, Singh asked, wide-eyed.
It seems that if you want to know what’s really going on in Ottawa these days, talk to an NDP MP. Not only was Singh privy to the budget but at Wednesday’s caucus meeting, he shared the news with his MPs. The Liberal-NDP deal signed last month is in some ways heartening, even if neither party campaigned on its conditions in the last election. In the Westminster tradition, confidence and supply deals have a long history.
Michael Wernick, the former clerk of the Privy Council, said the NDP is enjoying a major perk of being in government, apparently without signing up for the accountability conditions by which ministers, parliamentary secretaries, political staffers and public servants are obliged to abide.
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