That's a puzzling position, they don't have a majority, and the NDP are not exactly a long way from the Libs on most subjects. NDP have enough seats to make it a coalition majority
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It’s not needed. The only alliance that could topple them is BQ+PC and the Bloc has already committed to giving the Liberals minimum 1 year to enact their agenda.
No need to align right out of the gate and give the NDP bargaining power, they’ll do it when they have to.
Frankly, I'd be more inclined to give the NDP bargaining power than BQ. At least it's likely to benefit all Canadian, not just Quebec.
Carney could literally ignore the NDP for the next 4 years and I doubt it would make any difference. I say this as an NDP voter.
BQ has over 3 times the seats, it makes way more sense to try to work with them because you only need to convince 4/22 of them instead of 4/7 (and the things that BQ asks for in return may be a lot more politically achievable than whatever the NDP asks for, because they like to go big).
Carney may also want to cosy up to Quebec voters who were not entirely impressed with his French and don't trust him. Having a good relationship with BQ may go a long way for these people.
I don't love it, but the NDP don't have leverage here.
I think carney wants policy to speak for itself and parties and mps to vote balanced between how their party and their riding expects them to. I hope it helps stir up the us vs them mentalities and make mps vote a little more independently from their party.
It's probably another move to distance himself from Trudeau's choices.
Not at all. Another ‘coalition government’, which wasn’t a coalition govt, is rage fodder for the lunatics.
Well when the polling was that bad its generally a bad look to be the sole thing propping it up, hence how they lost official party status. They also somehow didnt see Trudeau raising capital gains taxes to turn boomers against him, blowing through the budget so Freeland could create fake drama blaming Trudeau, and setting things up so Carney could come in as a savior to keep the party in power.
The NDP are gonna be in a leadership race for the next six months.
Tactically, they will probably avoid bringing down the government until that happens, so they can be counted on to abstain from or support most confidence votes.
The Bloc giveth and the Bloc taketh away. We are in full giveth.
Put that corporate liberal in their place Bloc Québécois!
Exactly.