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Canada: Trudeau Government On Brink Of Collapse As Former Ally NDP's Jagmeet Singh Backs No-Confidence Motion
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, despite weathering months of political upheaval, appears poised to lose power early next year—well ahead of the federal election scheduled for October 2025.
The shift comes as Jagmeet Singh, leader of the New Democratic Party (NDP) and a crucial Trudeau ally, has announced plans to withdraw support in the Parliament.
Singh revealed plans to introduce a no-confidence motion in the House of Commons on 27 January, after the winter recess.
He declared that the Liberal government does not deserve another chance.
"No matter who is leading the Liberal Party, this government's time is up," he said.
"Justin Trudeau failed in the biggest job a Prime Minister has: to work for people, not the powerful. The NDP will vote to bring this government down, and give Canadians a chance to vote for a government who will work for them," Singh wrote in a post on X.
Trudeau’s prospects of surviving the no-confidence vote are slim, as the Bloc Quebecois, which had previously resisted triggering an early election, has now pledged its support for the motion.
He noted that since recent confidence votes, “three major developments” had occurred—two involving shifts in stance by Singh and Bloc Quebecois Leader Yves-Francois Blanchet regarding their support for the Liberals.
The third development, Poilievre highlighted, was growing calls from within the Liberal Party itself for Trudeau’s resignation.
“He (Singh) suddenly has an epiphany and says he can no longer support the costly chaos that he has enabled as part of the NDP-Liberal coalition,” Poilievre said.
Poilievre announced plans to urge the Canadian governor general to reconvene the House of Commons to hold a confidence vote.
Poilievre posted his letter to the governor general on X in which he laid out his request for reconvening the Parliament, saying the “chaos cannot continue.”
“That is why I am asking you to use your authority to inform the prime minister that he must either dissolve Parliament or call an election or reconvene Parliament on the earliest day that is not a statutory holiday before the end of the calendar year to prove to you and to Canadians that he has the confidence of the House to continue as Prime Minister,” Poilievre wrote.
