BAD NEWS: Liberals, NDP "tentative" agreement to keep Trudeau government in power until 2025

[Anonymous]

Let's face it, Trudeau is an NDP prime minister. He is so out of touch with the traditional Liberal approach of the Chretien-Martin era. Promises of increased spending and higher taxes as proof the Liberals have fully taken on the NDP platform and no longer back the fiscal prudence the Liberal party was once known for. Now we have the most radical and extreme economic agenda in Canadian history.

[Anonymous]

Federal NDP says Newfoundland offshore oil project hard to justify. Federal NDP environment critic Laurel Collins said Wednesday it will be difficult for the Liberals to justify approving the project, given Canada's commitments to limit a rise in global temperatures to 1.5 C.



The provincial Progressive Conservatives have raised alarm about the NDP's ability to sway the Liberals' impending decision about whether Bay du Nord's environmental impacts will be minimal enough for the project to proceed.



Newfoundland and Labrador Opposition Leader David Brazil said Tuesday the new agreement between the federal Liberals and New Democrats to work on shared priorities could signal the end of Bay du Nord.

[cc]

Even with a 180 change of govt in 3 yrs, there will not be much left to put back together



This climate misinformation thingy, among other uber-left goodies  has ruined this once great country

[Anonymous]

Even with a 180 change of govt in 3 yrs, there will not be much left to put back together



This climate misinformation thingy, among other uber-left goodies  has ruined this once great country

It's like the fate of the planet depends on destroying middle class Canadian families like mine.

[Anonymous]

Federal NDP says Newfoundland offshore oil project hard to justify. Federal NDP environment critic Laurel Collins said Wednesday it will be difficult for the Liberals to justify approving the project, given Canada's commitments to limit a rise in global temperatures to 1.5 C.



The provincial Progressive Conservatives have raised alarm about the NDP's ability to sway the Liberals' impending decision about whether Bay du Nord's environmental impacts will be minimal enough for the project to proceed.



Newfoundland and Labrador Opposition Leader David Brazil said Tuesday the new agreement between the federal Liberals and New Democrats to work on shared priorities could signal the end of Bay du Nord.

We need our oild and gas developed. The world needs our oil and gas. If you thought Justine was saying no to every project before, with the NDP onboard, you aint seen nothing yet.

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[Thiel]

Spencer Fernando is never at a loss for words. Here is what he has to say about the unofficial coalition.



5 Reasons Why The Liberal-NDP Coalition Will Be Devastating For Canada's Economy



Economic illiteracy now runs rampant in the federal government.

A short while ago, I wrote about how Jagmeet Singh is counting on widespread economic illiteracy to push his agenda:



"In times of crisis people like to look for an easy scapegoat, and since Jagmeet Singh is an advocate of big-government, he has a political imperative to make sure that the scapegoat is the private sector, rather than acknowledging how government policies have made things much worse.



If Singh's ideas were actually implemented, the result would be the exact opposite of what he claims to seek, as prices would rise even higher."



And now, with the NDP forming a de facto coalition with the Liberals, economic illiteracy is the driving force of federal economic policy.



This will be devastating for Canada's economy.



Here are 5 reasons why:

More debt, more money printing

A growing number of Canadians are now making the connection between government overspending, excessive central bank money printing, and the rising cost-of-living.



More money chasing fewer goods leads to higher prices.



A key reason for this growing awareness has been the efforts of Pierre Poilievre to repeatedly make the case that government spending and higher prices are linked, and by the influence of independent media helping to counter the economic narrative of the Liberal government.



Unfortunately, the Liberal-NDP coalition is set to double-down on the same policies that have made life so expensive.



They will be further opening the floodgates of federal spending, drowning our nation in debt. The Bank of Canada will face massive political pressure from the Liberal-NDP coalition to enable all this spending by printing more and more money. Unless the Bank of Canada finds a new reserve of courage that has otherwise been absent, that pressure will lead to a monetary policy that further pushes up inflation and robs millions of Canadians of their financial dreams.



Higher taxes

With the NDP propping up the Liberals, the Liberals are now free to keep on raising the carbon tax year after year. In effect, the government is deliberately making the cost-of-living higher and higher, making it tougher for Canadians to make ends meet.



The carbon tax will increase on April 1st, and the Liberal-NDP coalition have fully embraced future increases.



But that's not all.



Given the amount of spending the Liberal-NDP coalition will be pushing, further tax hikes are just around the corner.



Since both Trudeau and Singh are never willing to look at reducing government spending, they will come for your wallet and hike your taxes to pay for their schemes.



Destroying confidence

Canada benefits heavily from having the United States as our neighbour. But those benefits also present a challenge, since we have to provide a competitive environment for investment.



That would be no problem for a pro-growth, pro-business government.



But with the Liberals and NDP taking an anti-business approach, more and more investment will head towards the United States.



The US has a similar culture, most of the country uses the same main language as Canada, and many of the companies are the same on both sides of the border. Given those realities, it is easy for investment to shift from Canada to the US, and with the Liberal-NDP coalition showing a hostility to businesses and creating a higher-cost environment, the lure of the US market and lower taxes will draw many away from this country.



The Liberal-NDP coalition is also using rhetoric like 'scabs' and 'pandemic-profiteer' legislation.



That kind of wording will further weaken confidence, and reinforce the anti-business stance of the Socialist Coalition.



As you surely know, it also demonstrates the economic illiteracy of the Liberal-NDP coalition, since accusing companies of 'pandemic profiteering' requires a complete disregard for supply and demand.



Depriving our Allies

In his remarks to the European Parliament, Justin Trudeau said all the usual nice words. Those kinds of speeches aren't difficult to write or deliver, especially if the goal is to not really say anything at all.



Trudeau claimed Canada stands 100% with our allies, and that's a nice sentiment.



Unfortunately, he left out the fact that when it comes to what our allies actually need, Canada has been doing little-to-nothing.



Consider what Europe needs most right now:



Military reinforcement and oil & gas from a fellow democracy.



Canada could provide both.



While we have some small deployments in Europe, years of underfunding our armed forces have left us unable to provide large-scale assistance. Think of what we could do if we had been investing in advanced jets like the F-35 and building hypersonic missiles.



When it came to providing support to Ukraine, our country quickly ran out of equipment – something admitted by our own defense minister – and what we did send was subpar compared to our allies like the United States & the UK.



Trudeau could have shown real support to Europe by announcing a Canadian military build-up.



Instead, he gave empty platitudes.



And on the issue of oil & gas, Canada is perfectly positioned to help Europe escape their dependence on Russian energy supplies.



It would be a massive win-win.



Expanded Canadian energy production and sales to Europe would make Canada richer, would deprive Putin's war machine of funds, and would help our democratic allies in Europe.



Trudeau claims "the world has changed," and he's absolutely right. However, those are just words, and they must be the precursor to actions that respond to that changed world, and rapid effort to expand our energy sector and increase sales to Europe is exactly the type of action required.



But did Trudeau do that?



Did he announce a huge effort to get more Canadian energy supplies to our European friends?



Of course not.



So, with Europe desperately asking for more energy from democracies, Canada leaves our friends deprived at their moment of greatest need.



This hurts our economy, and the economy of our allies.



Robbing young Canadians

One of the sad ironies of Justin Trudeau and Jagmeet Singh's time in power is that they were elected in large part due to the support of young Canadians, yet are imposing policies that are absolutely devastating to the future prospects of young people in this country.



An entire generation is being largely priced out of the housing market, and immense debt is being piled up, debt that isn't going into productive investment that drives growth.



In Canada, both household debt and government debt are high, meaning our country isn't generating the growth necessary to sustain our standard-of-living, and debt is only putting off the inevitable.



Unaffordable homes, unaffordable energy, unaffordable taxes, and unaffordable debt are the 'legacy' of the Trudeau-Singh agenda, and the Socialist Coalition will continue pushing Canada in a regressive economic direction.



This is a key reason why Pierre Poilievre has the potential to win over many young Canadians and reshape the political spectrum in this country, because the policies of Trudeau & Singh are crushing the economic prospects of young people.



Whenever the Socialist Coalition is defeated and the Conservatives retake power, the new Prime Minister will have a huge mess to clean up.

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[Anonymous]

This coalition they say is not a coalition is about what is best for two selfish people-Trudeau and Singh.

Rex Murphy: Liberal-NDP 'coalition' will make Canada worse off. But that's just fine for Singh and Trudeau

This is two leaders of political parties cobbling together an arrangement for their shared comfort and ease

worse off. But that's just fine for Singh and Trudeau



Throw away any notion that their new partnership is in your interests, as both NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau insist. Your interests are the last things on their minds.



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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, right, and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh.© Provided by National Post Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, right, and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh.

The big news of the week was the NDP and the Liberals going from cohabitation to official marriage. I call it big news, but in one sense it isn't. It's not about inflation, or how Canada is responding to the Ukraine crisis. It's not about some serious inquiry into the invokation of the Emergencies Act and the wide and dangerous powers the government wielded, unjustifiably in my view, for over a week.



No. It is two leaders of political parties cobbling together an arrangement, the only object of which is their shared comfort and ease. Throw away any notion that their new partnership is in your interests, as both NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau insist. Your interests are the last things on their minds.



First, about the deal itself, I note considerable unease within the contracting parties when outsiders describe their pact as a "coalition." Well, if it barks, has four legs, is called Spot and runs to the door when you come home, chances are it's a dog. The affected sensitivity about calling it what it effectively is — even if it doesn't meet the strict, formal definition of a coalition — arises from the fact that when two parties that are supposed to have real and separate identities, and have over their histories (and as recently as the last election) lambasted one another with fury and zeal and thrown up all sorts of harsh objections to one other, are seen heading off to the bedroom, hand-in-hand, people might start thinking that up to now they have been sold a bill of goods.



The sniping and abuse they have hurled at each other turns out to have been just a show — sciamachy and empty theatricals for the benefit of the cheap seats. When it comes to securing mutual political advantage — the key word is "political" — the NDP and the Liberals are water from the same brook, paint from the same can. Or, more precisely, political parties with no core ideas or core principles other than "how can we best hang onto power?" (Liberals) and "how can we get a slice of it for ourselves?" (NDP).



Singh is more the leader of a fog than the once-sternly principled NDP. He has enfolded himself and the historic party of Tommy Douglas, the party that was once so much the working man's party, into the Liberal bed clothes, and fatally abandoned what the political consultants call the "brand" — the essential defining characteristics of an established political movement.



In the case of the Liberals under Trudeau, there's really hardly any change at all. For the life of his tenure, the Liberal party has been his brand — a woke, shallow, I-feel-your-pain performance vehicle, very NDP in its expressed sentiments, with being green its main obsession.



Which brings us to why, apart from mutual ease and protection from opposition, this crafty deal was made. And it was made, let us point out, after the most consequential election since 1945, at least according to Trudeau. It's funny how that characterization died out so quickly after it was proclaimed. Just like the so badly "needed" invocation of the Emergencies Act.



The coalition is a blazing signal that the country is still going headlong into its net-zero fantasies, putting the brakes on oil production and hurling bundles of money at anything that can pretend to be green.



The carbon tax will be increased at the beginning of next month. And every feeble gesture towards lowering carbon emissions will receive both a benediction and a subsidy from this vastly overextended government.



The Liberal-NDP coalition is designed to allow the green agenda to go forward regardless of runaway inflation, regardless of the need to repair our economy after two years of shutdowns and the collapse of many small businesses, regardless of the effect gasoline and home heating prices are having on low- and fixed-income Canadians and regardless of the leverage the green agenda of countries like our own gives to tyrannical regimes such as Putin's.

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[Anonymous]

The NDP-Liberal coalition voted against a common sense Conservative motion that would have given Canadians a much-needed break from the cost-of-living crisis. With gas prices reaching over $2/litre in some parts of Canada, Conservatives proposed a solution that would put a pause on the GST for fuel. This would have provided much-needed relief for Canadian families suffering from the Liberals high-debt, high-tax agenda that has caused a 30-year high in inflation and a cost-of-living crisis.



Canadians that rely on their vehicles to get to work, drive their children to hockey practices, and drive to grocery stores have only seen prices skyrocket. A pause on the GST for fuel would have provided a much-needed price reduction at the pumps. Sadly, one of the first acts of the new NDP-Liberal government was to vote against giving Canadians a break at the pumps.

[Anonymous]

The NDP-Liberal coalition voted against a common sense Conservative motion that would have given Canadians a much-needed break from the cost-of-living crisis. With gas prices reaching over $2/litre in some parts of Canada, Conservatives proposed a solution that would put a pause on the GST for fuel. This would have provided much-needed relief for Canadian families suffering from the Liberals high-debt, high-tax agenda that has caused a 30-year high in inflation and a cost-of-living crisis.



Canadians that rely on their vehicles to get to work, drive their children to hockey practices, and drive to grocery stores have only seen prices skyrocket. A pause on the GST for fuel would have provided a much-needed price reduction at the pumps. Sadly, one of the first acts of the new NDP-Liberal government was to vote against giving Canadians a break at the pumps.

Justin Trudeau and Jagmeet Singh refuse to provide relief to working families for the inflation their failed policies have caused.

[Anonymous]

This political arrangement is a disaster for everybody who isn't rich and politically connected.

[cc]

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/adam-pankratz-is-jagmeet-singh-a-liberal-mole">Adam Pankratz: in National Post ->Is Jagmeet Singh a Liberal mole?



Since being elected, Singh has accomplished next to nothing and consistently votes in support of any Liberal measure of substance



Though not a question one normally asks about the leader of an opposition party, it's hard not to wonder. Since being elected, Singh has accomplished next to nothing and consistently votes in support of any Liberal measure of substance. His tenure as leader has been characterized by pure showmanship and image-polishing.



While some may note a striking similarity to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's brand of politics, Singh lacks a key element that Trudeau and his team have in abundance: political savvy and ruthlessness.



As a result, Singh's leadership has been reduced to a parade of meaningless words interspersed with the odd good soundbite or idea, which is inevitably taken by the Liberals and presented to Canadians as their own.



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 Singh's continued popularity and lack of scrutiny remain mystifying. Chosen as leader at a time when the NDP had over 40 seats, Singh has managed to win no more than 25 in either the 2019 or 2021 elections. A drop of over 40 per cent in a party's seat count should result in any leader being shown the door, but Singh has skated freely on.



The poor electoral results should be seen as a logical result of the NDP message under Singh, which has taken one of two forms: first, a poorly branded, bargain discount photocopy of ideas the Liberals are already implementing; and, second, fringe lunacy that any sane Canadian immediately recognizes as unrealistic electioneering and pandering to an extremist base.

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Anyone could be forgiven for thinking this is all a Liberal inside job. It all lines up perfectly. No challenge to the Liberal message. No real effort at targeting close Liberal-NDP ridings in any election. And no decent fundraising to hold a legitimate election threat over Trudeau's head if the NDP's concerns are not addressed.



Under Singh's leadership, the NDP has been listless and incoherent. Its message of social justice has been swallowed whole by the Liberals.

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Even last week's deal seemed like an agreement between the Liberals and a party that didn't have the foggiest idea of what it wanted, but was happy someone had acknowledge its presence in the room.

[Gaon]

Adam Pankratz]



Since being elected, Singh has accomplished next to nothing and consistently votes in support of any Liberal measure of substance



Though not a question one normally asks about the leader of an opposition party, it's hard not to wonder. Since being elected, Singh has accomplished next to nothing and consistently votes in support of any Liberal measure of substance. His tenure as leader has been characterized by pure showmanship and image-polishing.



While some may note a striking similarity to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's brand of politics, Singh lacks a key element that Trudeau and his team have in abundance: political savvy and ruthlessness.



As a result, Singh's leadership has been reduced to a parade of meaningless words interspersed with the odd good soundbite or idea, which is inevitably taken by the Liberals and presented to Canadians as their own.



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 Singh's continued popularity and lack of scrutiny remain mystifying. Chosen as leader at a time when the NDP had over 40 seats, Singh has managed to win no more than 25 in either the 2019 or 2021 elections. A drop of over 40 per cent in a party's seat count should result in any leader being shown the door, but Singh has skated freely on.



The poor electoral results should be seen as a logical result of the NDP message under Singh, which has taken one of two forms: first, a poorly branded, bargain discount photocopy of ideas the Liberals are already implementing; and, second, fringe lunacy that any sane Canadian immediately recognizes as unrealistic electioneering and pandering to an extremist base.

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Anyone could be forgiven for thinking this is all a Liberal inside job. It all lines up perfectly. No challenge to the Liberal message. No real effort at targeting close Liberal-NDP ridings in any election. And no decent fundraising to hold a legitimate election threat over Trudeau's head if the NDP's concerns are not addressed.



Under Singh's leadership, the NDP has been listless and incoherent. Its message of social justice has been swallowed whole by the Liberals.

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Even last week's deal seemed like an agreement between the Liberals and a party that didn't have the foggiest idea of what it wanted, but was happy someone had acknowledge its presence in the room.

Jagmeet Singh and Justin Trudeau are horrible choices.