On the same day the Liberal government’s House leader told reporters she was “confident” her party’s governance agreement with the NDP would last until June 2025, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh was busy recording a video in front of Parliament saying he was killing the deal.
“I’m fairly confident that agreement is a good agreement, it’s a strong agreement and we’ll get to the end of June,” Karina Gould told an early morning news conference at the federal cabinet retreat in Halifax on Aug. 27.
One week later, Gould and the rest of the Liberal cabinet were hit with a political bombshell that caught them completely by surprise — when the NDP pulled out of the supply-and-confidence agreement that was set to keep the Liberal minority government in power through to next June.
The decision could see the government toppled before fall 2025 and introduces a new degree of instability to …