NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is back in the position of continuing to demand accountability while propping up Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
There’s no inquiry into Chinese foreign interference, so the federal New Democrats have decided to keep walking on a tightrope between criticizing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and supporting his government.
As Mr. Trudeau’s “special rapporteur” on foreign interference, Mr. Johnston recommended against calling an inquiry, and Mr. Trudeau agreed. But the NDP had already voted for an inquiry. And Mr. Singh is back in the position of continuing to demand accountability while propping up Mr. Trudeau. But these kinds of things – being forced to walk a political tightrope between opposing and supporting Mr. Trudeau – will gradually weaken the Liberal-NDP deal.
Mr. Singh’s advisers were annoyed it had come to that. They felt Mr. Trudeau had mishandled the questions and stonewalled calls for an inquiry, so they had to oppose him. There had been other recent cases where the New Democrats felt they’d been forced to split with the Liberals because they bobbled the politics – notably in December, when the NDP withdrew its support for Liberal gun measures after a backlash.
But no one knows if foreign interference will start to raise deeper public concern, especially if there are more revelations in news reports.
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