EDITORIAL: Here's the fix for what irks Jagmeet Singh

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New Democratic Party Leader Jagmeet Singh appears to be having an identity crisis.

His left hand doesn’t seem to know what the right one is doing. Or perhaps he never looks right.

On social media, Singh slams the policies of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. In the House of Commons, he raises his right hand and votes obediently with the Liberals.

On Aug. 17, Singh wrote on X: “Justin Trudeau told Canadians things would be better, instead, they’ve gotten worse. Families are losing their homes, landlords are making record profits and rents have doubled.” All of which is true.

There’s an obvious solution to all of this: If the NDP feels so strongly that Trudeau must go, all it has to do is cancel its so-called “Supply and Confidence” agreement with the Liberals that’s kept Trudeau in power long after his best before date.

“Justin Trudeau built people’s hopes up, only to let them down,” Singh continued. “Under Trudeau, rent prices have doubled since 2015 and 370,000 affordable homes have been sold off to developers. He not only let people down, his failures are hurting them.”

We couldn’t agree more.

We’d include the horrific way the Trudeau government has mismanaged just about every file it has meddled with.

Whether it’s the ArriveCAN app, in which an IT project that was originally supposed to cost $80,000 ended up costing close to $60 million; the WE charity and SNC-Lavalin messes; the chaos it has made of immigration or the inquiry into foreign interference, it’s evident that it’s time this government moved on.

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Canadians gave the Liberals a very tentative minority government in the last election. Conservatives got more votes than the Liberals. While Singh’s pact with Trudeau is legitimate in a minority situation, coalitions such as this one are frustrating. In most minorities, the party holding the balance of power usually decides how it will vote on an issue-by-issue basis. In the 2021 election, voters certainly didn’t give the government sweeping powers to implement radical left-wing policies.

So, Mr. Singh, you say Trudeau is doing a terrible job? Put your vote where your beliefs are. Put us all out of our misery and end this charade — while this country is still in one piece.