OTTAWA (Reuters) -The leader of Canada’s opposition New Democratic Party, fresh from tearing up a deal to help keep Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in power, said on Thursday an election was now more likely.
Jagmeet Singh spoke after pulling his unconditional support for the minority Liberal government on Wednesday, thereby forcing Trudeau to seek new alliances to stay in office until a federal vote that must be held by the end of October 2025.
“I’ve ripped up the agreement with Justin Trudeau, and I know that means that an election is now more likely as a result. We are ready to fight an election whenever it happens,” he told reporters in Toronto.
Trudeau’s government can be defeated if all the opposition parties unite and back a no-confidence vote.
Singh side-stepped questions as to whether he would vote to bring the government down, saying his left-leaning party would decide on an issue-by-issue basis on whether to support the Liberals. The NDP is the fourth-largest party in the House of Commons.
Trudeau’s government, however, would survive if the NDP abstained during any confidence vote.
(Reporting by David Ljunggren; Editing by Paul Simao)
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