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For better or worse, he's probably reached the point where he thinks they need to cut all remaining ties to the Liberals, and not be seen as propping them up, formally or otherwise.
With the Conservatives 20 points ahead in polls, it's definitely for worse.
And that's worth a PP government? IMO he's lost the plot if that's his entire line of thinking.
I'm torn on this.
On the one hand, I agree that a PP government is a terrible thing.
On the other hand, it's hardly the NDP's job to prop up another political party.
You want a two-party system, then. That's pretty much the only way for parties to never work strategically.
Well, no.
I want a system that's actually designed to support multiple parties. Westminster ain't it.
Former British colonies are still suffering from the effects of first-past-the-post.
Somebody's always propping up another party if you're Germany or Norway or Spain, though, or you don't have a government. That's what I mean. We have something like 2.5 parties, so we're not used to it, but it's how it's "supposed" to work.
There's no formal coalition agreement, and I don't see Trudeau scrambling to offer cabinet posts to NDP MPs.
The less formal arrangement they had lasted a pretty long time, all things considered.
But Singh doesn't owe him anything.
No. That's not what they're saying at all.
The NDP is not in government. Trudeau did not form a coalition, he decided to form a single-party cabinet in a hung parliament. This is how this always plays out.If he wanted stability, he could have formed a coalition.
Formal coalition vs. informal support is a distinction without a difference, though.