NDP prepared to withhold votes in Parliament, including on the Liberal budget: Singh

OTTAWA -- Jagmeet Singh warned Thursday that he is willing to "withhold votes" for Liberal legislation he does not agree with, including the budget.

At a news conference in Ottawa, Singh said he wants to see a "positive signal" from Trudeau that he is willing to work with the NDP. As in the last Parliament, Trudeau's minority government will rely on votes from other parties to push his legislative program forward."We are prepared to withhold our votes and that is why we are calling on the government to show that they are interested in working together," he said.

The NDP leader said he is "very skeptical of the words and the promises of Mr. Trudeau and the Liberals. Because they don't follow through." Singh said that a review would look at whether the party should have campaigned harder on the ground. It will also look at whether Singh's tour of the country, which saw him visiting more than 50 target ridings, paid off.

The NDP announced Thursday that its caucus had elected MPs to fill key jobs, including Vancouver MP Jenny Kwan who will serve as caucus chair and Blake Desjarlais, a two-spirit Metis leader newly elected in Edmonton, as deputy caucus chair.

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Jag still as irrelevant as ever. Will he take credit for the lack of progress on key legislation too?

Mr. Singh is taking all the free political mileage he can. But it's just BS.

Spitting in the face of democracy…This man shows to be worse than Trudeau time and time again.

Is he threatening a no confidence vote and another election?

Sure he is 🤡🤪.

He wasn’t prepared to do it before, what makes him sure he can do it this time?

Sure he will. Look at what he did in the last two years

his past actions say otherwise. 🤔

Things are getting clear that why we are unable to live in peace and optimium development throughout thousand of years of human history.

theJagmeetSingh will never withhold anything from JT, it’s all hot air.

Ok theJagmeetSingh you go ahead and vote out the Government after just having an election, I can guarantee your party goes down with the vote and JustinTrudeau gets an majority. What you want is unrealistic to our situation, so suck it up buttercup and do the right thing!

Is he still at the helm of NDP? He is trying to do whatever it take to keep his position.

Yep that is exactly why we needed the election. This is not a sudden change of heart. I wish Trudeau would have gotten his majority. He was the only one with the conviction and guts to mandate us to herd immunity.

Oh Singh, go sit in the shower already. He is the downfall of my former preferred party. Mulclair was no Jack Layton.... but this guy.... He's a wannabe Instagram influencer and has no political suave what so ever. Didn't he lose seats to the PPC?

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