Andrew MacDougall: By facilitating Justin Trudeau’s shutdown of Parliament, the NDP has written itself out of relevance. It could have done so much more.
Singh speaks during the COVID-19 Pandemic Committee in the House of Commons on May 27, 2020
So listen up, Mr. Singh, for what I’m about to say will undoubtedly hurt: it’s time for your defective NDP to be put down on account of the mercy rule. There is simply no chance the NDP will ever get back in the game called Canadian democracy. Watching the NDP leader take questions in the wake of his bamboozling was even worse. Trudeau is hiding behind “jurisdiction” on the question of care homes, Singh thundered as he threw a blanket over Parliament. “We have many tools to push the government,” Singh argued to reporters, perhaps not realizing he had just thrown away his best and most effective tool. Quick, somebody explain ‘balance of power’ to the man who should be bending Justin Trudeau over a barrel, not vice versa.
It’s hard to believe the party that stormed to the role of Official Opposition in 2011 is already on death’s door, but such is the NDP’s tale of woe since that time.
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