Poilievre asks Singh to pull support for Liberal government to prompt fall election
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has written a letter to his NDP counterpart asking Jagmeet Singh to pull his party’s support for the Liberal government so Canadians can go to the polls this fall instead of next year as planned.
“Canadians can’t afford or even endure another year of this costly coalition. No one voted for you to keep Trudeau in power. You do not have a mandate to drag out his government another year,” Poilievre wrote in his letter.
“Pull out of the costly coalition and vote non-confidence in the government this September to trigger a carbon tax election in October of THIS YEAR. Or you will forever be known as ‘Sellout Singh,'” Poilievre said.
Poilievre’s challenge to Singh comes as the parties square off in a federal byelection in Manitoba, a Sept. 16 vote that is expected to be a competitive two-way race between the Conservative and NDP candidates.
Poilievre said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did not go ahead with a “reset” of his cabinet at the government’s retreat in Halifax this week — some Liberal MPs wanted a shuffle after the stinging byelection loss in Toronto-St. Paul’s — and that means “all the ministers who gave us rising crime, costs and housing remain.”
Asked why there wasn’t a cabinet shuffle, Trudeau said he would focus on policy over personalities as he tries to boost the government’s standing with Canadians.
Trudeau announced a clamp-down on the low-wage temporary foreign worker program that some experts say has spiralled out of control, and signalled further changes to the country’s immigration program could be coming this fall.
Trudeau also slapped punitive tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles to support Canada’s auto manufacturing sector in the face of state-subsidized cars from that country.
At a news conference on Parliament Hill Thursday, Poilievre said Singh has abandoned the labour movement by standing by a government that forced the Teamsters union, which represents railway workers, into binding arbitration with CN and CPKC.
The union wanted to work out its differences with those railways at the bargaining table, saying the government was infringing on its Charter-protected right to collective bargaining.
Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon said allowing a work stoppage at both of Canada’s railways to continue would cripple the economy. Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said letting the railways go dark for longer would have been a “self-inflicted wound.”
The Canadian Industrial Relations Board ultimately sided with the Liberals.
Poilievre wouldn’t say what he would have done if he were facing an economically damaging strike action by railway workers.
He said the rail work stoppage was prompted by a dispute over wages during a time of higher inflation, and claimed inflation will not be an issue if he’s elected.
“Jagmeet Singh, stop selling out the workers, stop being Sellout Singh. Put the people ahead of your pension vote for a carbon tax election now,” Poilievre said, suggesting that Singh is intent on holding off an election until he qualifies for his MP pension.
Singh, first elected in 2019, will qualify for retirement benefits after he reaches six years of parliamentary service at the end of February 2025.
Poilievre, who was first elected in 2004, qualified for his pension in 2010.
“Justin Trudeau will not quit — he must be fired — and the person to do it is Jagmeet Singh,” Poilievre said.
Earlier, Government House Leader Karina Gould said she’s confident the NDP supply-and-confidence agreement that keeps the Liberal government in power will hold until its expected end date in June 2025.
“We signed the agreement until the end of June — that’s something that has been signed and agreed to, so I’m going to be working on that premise,” she said.
That agreement, first signed in March 2022, allows the government to carry on without fear of falling on a confidence vote. If the two parties abide by the deal, there will be no federal election until next summer at the earliest.
Peter Julian, the NDP House leader, was less definitive about the deal’s future.
“Leaving the agreement is always on the table for Jagmeet Singh and the NDP,” Julian said in a statement to CBC News.
The NDP hasn’t yet responded to Poilievre’s call to bring down the government this fall.
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