The Liberals and the NPD are all alone until 2025

(Ottawa) Canada’s Liberal Party will be demoted to power until June 2025 in support of the New Democratic Party. The two political parties have reached an agreement, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau confirmed on Tuesday.

“This agreement will not, because of the fundamental values ​​of each of our parties, be stated in a press conference.” We will continue to debate and be in agreement on certain points, just as we will continue to work with the other parties in the Chamber of Communities. »

In exchange for the support of the neo-democrats to support their minority government, the librarians are committed to adopting a law to establish an insurance insurance in the provinces that have not reached the end of 2023, a program called the NPD.

Libraries will also launch a dental care program for low-income people. They plan to make it accessible to children under 12 years of age in 2022, then to extend it to adolescents, the elderly and the disabled the following year. This program will possibly be accessible to households with an annual income of less than $ 90,000.

They are also committed to “progressively eliminating” fossil fuel subsidies this year. The agreement includes other policies to combat climate change, affordable housing, workers, reconciliation with indigenous peoples, fairer taxation and better electoral processes.

A monitoring group composed of political employees and deputies meets every month to measure progress. The head of the NPD, Jagmeet Singh, will meet the Prime Minister “at least once a quarter” and regular meetings will take place between the leaders of each party in the Chamber of Communities and their whips.

NPD deputies support the four next budgets and support the government in other confidence votes. The neo-democrats are committed to not proposing a vote of no confidence. Adding a question of confidentiality, the NPD should inform the government of its intentions before making public appearances.

The agreement allows the Liberals to “deliver the goods”, according to the Prime Minister, but this is not a coalition government where neo-democratic deputies will have to sit on the Council of Ministers.

“There has never really been any reflection or discussion on the idea of ​​a partnership or a more formal coalition, it is simply an agreement on which we can work together in a constructive way in Parliament. “There is already alignment, and there is disagreement about where there is no alignment to be able to work with other parties when we want to,” Mr Trudeau said.

“It is something that will enable stability, cooperation, predictability for Canadians in moments of uncertainty and unpredictability,” he added, referring to the pandemic and war in Ukraine.

Singh is happy to understand

The new Liberal Dance Partner presented the Conclusion of this agreement as a victory, both for the NPD and for the population. “We have used our power to help people, now”, he argued, using the “We have used our power” location in addition to a reprint in its opening press conference allocation.

“It’s not a white card at all, it’s defended. We have one opposition party left.”

And if the librarians do not deliver the goods and do not respect the conditions stipulated in the baptismal agreement Obtain results from now on for Canadians: a support and trust agreementthe neo-democrats do not hesitate to withdraw their support, insisted the leader, who had met his caucus late Monday evening before they could understand the agreement.

«But we start with a good will. We want it to work, ‘said Chef Singh.

In a leaked photo posted on Twitter, it is written in the line of its predecessors, Tommy Douglas and Jack Layton, seeking to have realized “the greatest expansion of health care of a generation, with dental care it is[urance]-medicaments »arguing that the NPD« still uses its power to help people ».

Conservatives and blockchain fulminent

In the conservator’s camp, interim chief Candice Bergen filed “the secret agreement.”

“It’s nothing more than a way for Justin Trudeau to preserve power”, she criticizes. “It is not necessary to be lazy: the NDP is now under control”, which is translated by “the annexation of the oil and gas industry and liquefied natural gas”, at-soutenu, said to reduce the sentiment of ” hope »that this pact will be established in the west of the country.

In turn, his deputy, Gérard Deltell, accused Prime Minister Trudeau of giving “a white card to the NPD”.

In the blockade camp, Chief Yves-François Blanchet believes the NPD has “confirmed[e] what he has been doing »for two years, be it Justin Trudeau’s librarians. And he also came “to have his own usefulness” in concluding an agreement that “will not last”, he predicted in a press release in a Chamber.

He criticized the “naivete” of Jagmeet Singh, that the Canadian Prime Minister did not even invite to the press conference he had convened this morning.

The bloc leader has said that if the Liberal leader had sought to conclude such an alliance, he would have never accepted his minority status in Parliament. It is therefore “a false majority government made with the NPD”, Mr Blanchet said.