C’mon man.
“How dare you do this thing that I’m enabling you to keep doing!”
That would seem to sum up the approach of the federal NDP under Jagmeet Singh’s leadership.
The NDP – who still pretend to be an opposition party – spends much of their time attacking the Conservatives. The NDP’s fear of the Conservatives is understandable from a political perspective, since Pierre Poilievre is making an increasingly successful move to convince what remains of the NDP’s working class base to shift to the Conservatives.
But that is made possible in large part because Singh has so closely tied his party to the Liberals.
With the Liberal-NDP Pact, Singh is keeping the Liberals in power until 2025, and the NDP has voted with the Liberals over and over and over again.
The NDP is now basically an offshoot of the Liberal Party, and thus bears much of the responsibility for what the government does.
Yet, Jagmeet Singh somehow appears unaware of this.
Either that, or he’s decided to willfully ignore it.
Singh continues to criticize the state of the country under the Liberals, even as he props them up.
Consider this recent Tweet:
“Liberal/Conservative govt’s have made it tougher for you to afford a good place to call home.
They continue to favour corporate investors over you.
I’ll stop rewarding rich investors who buy up rental units and jack up the rent.
I’ll always put you first.”
Liberal/Conservative govt's have made it tougher for you to afford a good place to call home.
They continue to favour corporate investors over you.
I'll stop rewarding rich investors who buy up rental units and jack up the rent.
I'll always put you first. pic.twitter.com/wUpZZjcaFH
— Jagmeet Singh (@theJagmeetSingh) January 31, 2023
What have Jagmeet Singh and the NDP actually done about this?
Absolutely nothing.
He is simultaneously claiming the Liberal government under Trudeau is making the rental price situation worse, while he props them up.
More absurd is that Singh continues to support the very policies that make all of this worse.
He favours massive deficits, rampant money printing, holding back the energy sector, huge population increases, and the ‘green agenda’ that disincentivizes productivity and construction.
On issue after issue, Singh and the NDP vote with the Liberals, keep the Liberals in power, and make things worse.
So when he complains, he has zero credibility.
If he really wants to show he’s ‘fighting’ against the Liberals, then he needs to end the Liberal-NDP Pact. Otherwise, it’s all just performative ‘opposition’ that serves only to provide the illusion that the NDP doesn’t share responsibility for the declining state of the country.
Spencer Fernando
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