The cat came out of the bag, formal alliance links Jagmeet Singh’s New Democrats with Justin Trudeau’s Liberals. In concrete terms, this means that the NDP will support the government in votes of confidence and guarantee it the majority that Canadians have denied it. And this support, which will last until 2025 (!), will collectively cost us dearly!
Buy the majority
Canadians refused to give the Trudeau government a majority. In their wisdom, they preferred to keep him in power for lack of anything better, but serving him a warning: you will have to get along with all the opposition parties to govern.
More than $600 million was spent to organize an election that no one wanted and which led to the same result. The press release announcing this alliance could have had the title: you didn’t want to give me the majority, I bought it.
We thought that $ 600 million was already a lot of money, we did not know that Justin Trudeau is ready to spend much more to govern with a majority. He is ready to adopt the NDP election platform, a surreal spending platform when our finances are in a sorry state.
How much do you think this Trudeauist whim will cost us. The creation of a universal drug plan and the creation of dental insurance, however laudable the idea, is not a realistic proposition either from a financial point of view or from a respect for competence point of view. .
Centralization operation
This alliance is not only an affront to the democratic will expressed six months ago by Canadians, it is also an affront to respect for jurisdictions between the federal government and the provinces. Another encroachment, another centralization, another “paternalization” of the federal government towards the provinces, particularly in health.
It seems that the Liberals and New Democrats are doing everything to agree with François Legault, who in the last election criticized them for being the most centralizing and the most interventionist in areas of provincial jurisdiction. The proof is now done.
Power above all
All these arguments do not seem to have carried weight in the negotiations that led to this sad marriage. We knew, in the face of the Liberals’ manifest lack of interest in public finances, that NDP ideology was driving the wheel. Now it’s official, she also has her foot on the accelerator and will collectively take us towards the wall.
It is clear that the only thing that drives the current government is power. Inflation is sky high, a war is raging in Europe, our economy is in tatters and our families are struggling, rather than deal with it, the Prime Minister was making deals to empower him rather than deserve them. If that’s how they do politics “differently”, I pass my turn.