OTTAWA — NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said Monday morning that his caucus will vote to bring the Liberal government down when Parliament reconvenes in the new year.
“The Liberals don’t deserve another chance,” Singh said in a statement posted to social media. “That’s why… (w)e will put forward a clear motion of non-confidence in the next sitting of the House of Commons.”
With Singh’s announcement, all three major opposition party leaders are now calling for an early 2025 election.
Singh called on Monday for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to resign, after Chrystia Freeland’s bombshell departure from cabinet, but didn’t commit to bringing the Liberal government down in a confidence vote.
He struggled to defend this non-committal position in a circuit of year-end interviews this week.
Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre and Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet both said earlier this week that an election must take place early next year to give a new Parliament time to deal with incoming U.S. President Donald Trump.
NDP House Leader Peter Julian said in a Monday interview that the party would entertain a non-confidence motion at the “end of February (or) beginning of March” if Trudeau had not stepped aside by then.
MPs are set to return to Ottawa for the new session on Monday, Jan. 27.
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