What’s With Jagmeet Singh

New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh is receiving a great deal of criticism for saying the NDP will vote non-confidence in the Liberal government in the New Year and that this will bring on a Poilievre Conservative government. Of course it is the voters who will decide who forms the next government and the only thing the NDP voting against the Liberals can do is bring on that legally required election six months sooner.

But that six months is very important for the Liberals who, now in a leadership crisis, need that six months to resolve it and select a new leader. In fact that six months is probably important enough for the Liberals to make the NDP an offer they cannot refuse.

That offer could be electoral reform, and although bringing in a Proportional Representation system before the next election may be impossible, implementing Ranked Ballot Voting may well be within Elections Canada’s capability, followed by the next Parliament implementing Proportional Representation.

Or it could be fast tracking a complete universal Pharmacare program for Canada or some other significant gain for the Canadian people that the Liberal government has shown they were not prepared to do so far.

The next move is the Liberal Party’s.