Jagmeet Singh says the only way to stop a Liberal 'super majority' is to vote NDP

David Baxter · The Canadian Press

· Posted: Apr 22, 2025 6:04 PM EDT | Last Updated: 6 minutes ago

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said Tuesday that voters who privation to forestall a Liberal "super majority" should enactment New Democrats.

Public sentiment polls suggest the Liberals could signifier a bulk authorities aft this election, portion the NDP is astatine hazard of losing authoritative enactment status. This is simply a large alteration since the opening of the year, erstwhile the Conservatives seemed poised to triumph a bulk government.

That displacement was triggered by erstwhile premier curate Justin Trudeau's resignation and the predetermination of Mark Carney to regenerate him arsenic Liberal person — coupled with U.S. President Donald Trump's planetary commercialized warfare and rhetoric astir annexing Canada.

Campaigning successful Vancouver connected Tuesday, Singh said that radical should ballot for the NDP if they privation to combat backmost against post-election cuts to wellness care.

"British Columbians … I'm going to specifically speech to you close now. Here successful B.C., you person an incredibly important relation to play successful this election," helium said. "You tin marque the quality betwixt Mark Carney getting a ace bulk oregon sending capable New Democrats to Ottawa truthful we tin combat to support the things you attraction about."

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Singh said helium believes the Liberals are headed for triumph connected April 28 due to the fact that radical are "rejecting" the Conservative vision.

"And radical are present looking towards the Liberals, but erstwhile they look intimately astatine Mark Carney, they say, 'Wait a second, $28 cardinal successful cuts to things I attraction about,'" helium said.

Singh has claimed that Carney's pledge to equilibrium the government's operating fund implies cuts to wellness transfers to the provinces and different programs.

Carney has said helium plans to support existing transfers to the provinces, including wellness transfers. Singh has argued that maintaining wellness transfers is "banker speak" for cuts due to the fact that Canada's colonisation is increasing and aging.

In Vancouver, the NDP person again attacked Carney implicit his erstwhile relation arsenic seat of Brookfield Asset Management.

Singh said Brookfield owns an Australian institution called Healthscope, which owns 38 backstage hospitals successful that country.

"[Carney] says wellness should not beryllium a business, but conscionable a mates of months ago, [Brookfield] actually invested successful it being a business, really bought a institution that was a for-profit hospital," helium said.

Brookfield Business Partners acquired Healthscope successful 2019, erstwhile Carney was inactive the politician of the Bank of England. He joined Brookfield Asset Management successful August 2020 arsenic vice-chair and caput of environment, societal and governance. Both companies are subsidiaries of the Brookfield Corporation.

The Liberal level says that "health attraction is simply a right" and promises to enlistee much doctors, amended labour mobility for health-care unit and make a money to enactment the opening of caller clinics.

The Canada Health Act has connection that prevents health-care providers from charging for procedures and services covered nether Canada's single-payer system.

When asked what the predetermination effect could mean for his ain aboriginal arsenic NDP leader, Singh said he's focused connected the predetermination and it's been "the honour of his life" to assistance get a nationalist dental-care program implemented.

"The Liberals, erstwhile successful power, often hide astir people, and they don't enactment unless forced to bash so, unless pushed to do so. And the lone enactment that tin propulsion them to present what you need, what your household needs, is the New Democrats," Singh said.

Establishing a nationalist dental-care programme was 1 of the cardinal argumentation priorities successful the NDP's enactment woody with the erstwhile Liberal government.