News Analysis
After ending his party’s supply-and-confidence agreement with the Liberals in September 2024, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh consistently voted against the Conservatives’ confidence motions that sought to bring down the minority government.
“We’re not going to let [Conservative Leader] Pierre Poilievre tell us what to do,” Singh said on Sept. 19 ahead of the tabling of the first of several such motions by the Tories.
At the time, projections were showing that if an election were held then, the NDP would drop from the 25 seats it won in the 2021 election to around 15, the Conservatives would soar to supermajority territory with 220 projected seats, and the governing Liberals would drop to around 65 projected seats….