From LifeSiteNews

By Anthony Murdoch

The leader of Canada’s Conservative Party, Pierre Poilievre, has asked the head of the New Democratic Party (NDP) Jagmeet Singh to pull his support for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals to trigger a fall election, as Canadians “can’t afford or even endure another year of this costly coalition.” 

The letter, released on X Thursday by Poilievre, states that “Canadians can’t afford or even endure another year of this costly coalition.” 

“No one voted for you to keep Trudeau in power,” Poilievre wrote, referencing Singh’s informal coalition with the Trudeau government that began last year, in which the NDP leader agreed to keep the Liberals in power until the next election is mandated by law in 2025. “You do not have a mandate to drag out his government another year.”

Poilievre called upon Singh to pull his support for Trudeau, so that Canadians can soon go to the polls in a general election. 

“Mr. Singh, I know that you are eager to avoid an election so that you can qualify for your $2.2 million taxpayer-funded pension in February, but it’s time for you to put the people before your pension,” he wrote. 

“Pull out of the costly coalition and vote non-confidence in the government this September to trigger a carbon tax election in October of THIS YEAR. Or you will forever be known as ‘Sellout Singh.’”  

As reported by LifeSiteNews, the Trudeau Liberals are looking to delay the 2025 federal election by a few extra days in what many see as a stunt to try and secure pensions for MPs who are projected to lose their seats. Approximately 80 MPs would qualify for their pensions should they sit as MPs until at least October 27, 2025, which is the newly proposed election date. The election date as it stands now is set to happen on October 20, 2025. 

House leader for the NDP, Peter Julian, in reply to Poilievre’s request to Singh, noted that “leaving the deal is always on the table for Jagmeet Singh.” 

As for Poilievre, he called out the fact that Singh earlier this year “supported Trudeau’s decision to hike his carbon tax by 23 percent, as part of his plan to hike the tax by 300% by 2030.” 

“You helped Trudeau pass his budget that poured $60 billion of wasteful spending onto the inflationary fire,” he noted. 

LifeSiteNews, in a recent opinion piece by this writer, observed that most of the recent polling shows that if a federal election were held today, “Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative Party would not only mop the floor of the House of Commons of most Liberal MPs but wash the windows of the house on Parliament Hill as well with a tint of conservative blue.” 

“Canada is being held hostage by a pro-abortion, anti-life socialist party (Singh’s NDP) that currently represents only seven percent of the electable seats in the House of Commons, a surprising fact and a sobering reminder of how the parliamentarian process that governs the nation is flawed in many ways,” reads the commentary piece.  

As for Singh, he recently said his support for the Trudeau government, which is keeping the Liberals in power, would crumble unless the prime minister introduced pharmacare legislation before March.