NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is asking the prime minister to allow more members of his party to be briefed on foreign interference attempts, after the leaders of the Conservatives and Bloc Québécois declined to obtain the required security clearance. In a letter addressed to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday, Singh said he wants those…

All federal opposition leaders and various national officials are criticizing Special Rapporteur David Johnston’s decision not to call for a public inquiry into foreign interference in Canada’s last two general elections. Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre, Bloc Québécois leader Yves-François Blanchet, and NDP leader Jagmeet Singh all stated their disappointment with Johnston’s decision shortly after he announced…

As the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) strike moves into its eighth day, opposition leaders are criticizing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for leaving the country to attend a summit in New York while negotiations between PSAC and Ottawa remain unresolved. “If this prime minister was serious about respecting these workers, he wouldn’t be jetting off…

Opposition MPs criticized Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during question period on April 19 for failing to negotiate a deal with the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) to prevent 155,000 federal workers from striking. “It is a failure to increase the cost of the bureaucracy by 50 percent with poor services. It is a failure…

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today commented on the recent resignation of the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation’s leadership team, accusing Conservative politicians of increasing “polarization and partisanship” that he said led to “unfounded” attacks on the foundation. “Those people who are trying to get short-term political gain by increasing polarization and partisanship in this country by…

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said his party won’t be voting for the newly tabled federal budget, while NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said his party will vote in favour of the commitments in the budget he “forced this government to deliver.” “Today’s budget by the costly coalition of the NDP-Liberals is a full-frontal attack on the…

Opposition party leaders have reacted to the latest national security leak alleging that the Chinese regime interfered in the Vancouver municipal elections last year, with NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh expressing grave concerns. “As somebody who represents Burnaby, a neighbouring city, the idea of a foreign government influencing our municipal election is deeply concerning, it should…

Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says his party is using its agreement with the Liberals as leverage to push for its priorities in the upcoming federal budget, set to be released on March 28. Singh said he expects the upcoming budget will have money to expand dental care coverage to teens, seniors, and people living…

Commentary It was high drama during a recent meeting of what is typically a sedate parliamentary agriculture committee. With weeks of pressure, MPs managed to get some CEOs of Canada’s largest grocers to appear before the committee to explain their recent profit levels. NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh had been attacking Canadian grocers for days using…

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says his party is not “ruling out” the possibility of ending its supply-and-confidence agreement with the Liberal government if Prime Minister Justin Trudeau fails to call a public inquiry into reports of foreign election interference. Singh said on an episode of the Roy Green Show podcast on March 4 that while terminating the…