| Ryuu96 said: Speaking of, I am not convinced that Conservatives will lose in Canada just yet but there's now at least a chance, I do however hope that even if they do win, it's not a majority government, I'm not too knowledgeable on all the Canadian parties so I hope a lot of them would be unwilling to coalition with them or at least if they did, force them into concessions. |
There's pretty much only one possibility, Liberals + NDP majority to stand against the Conservatives.
https://theconversation.com/what-does-the-end-of-the-liberal-ndp-agreement-mean-for-canadians-238290
Liberals and NDP have worked together, plenty goals align, yet the NDP distanced themselves last year because the Liberals were losing hard and crossing some red lines with the NDP.
Supporting parties always run the risk of falling along with the government they support when its popularity plummets. The Liberals and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have been particularly unpopular since signing the agreement in March 2022, and the NDP has continued to try to distinguish itself from the Liberal government — something difficult to do with the deal in place.
In recent weeks, however, the Liberal government has come under heavy criticism for its intervention in the railway dispute with Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Kansas City.
Support for workers and the labour movement has long been a key NDP principle. In the face of such a high-profile lockout and labour dispute, the NDP seemingly could not implicitly support the government’s actions, and decided to publicly make that clear.
But that doesn't mean they can't join up again
Withdrawing from the deal is not the equivalent of a vote of no-confidence in the government, and it doesn’t mean the NDP wants to immediately pull the plug on the Liberal government. Instead, the NDP wants full freedom to forge and promote its own policy agenda and its message to Canadians while distancing itself from an unpopular government and prime minister.
New Democrats may negotiate and vote alongside the Liberals on various issues, but they want to be seen as an alternative to them rather than their strong ally. By contributing to the expansion of the federal welfare state since the COVID-19 pandemic, the NDP also sees an opportunity to depict itself as the progressive and pro-worker alternative to the Conservative Party.
With Trump now dropping support for the conservatives, swinging support back to the Liberals it could happen again. Yet we're not there yet.
https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/poll-tracker/canada/
Liberal + NDP won't have a majority the way things stand currently and the conservatives are still extremely close to winning majority on their own.
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