The end of the agreement does not automatically send voters to the polls

FEDERAL NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh announced on Wednesday that he has ended the Supply and Confidence Agreement signed with the Liberal government in 2022.

“The fact is, the Liberals are too weak, too selfish and too beholden to corporate interests to fight for people,” Singh said in a video address to Canadians. “They cannot stop the Conservatives. But we can.”

Singh laid out the coming choice Canadians will make, which he said will be between Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives and their planned cuts—which he calls the greatest threat to middle class Canadians—and the hope and relief offered by the NDP.

He pointed out that through the Supply and Confidence Agreement, the NDP has delivered free dental care for millions of Canadians and pharmacare legislation, which together represent the largest expansion of free Canadian health care in generations. Through the agreement, the NDP also delivered the Early Learning and Child Care Act to lower the price of child care, and anti-scab and sustainable jobs legislation to protect workers. All of those measures were opposed by both Liberals and Conservatives until the NDP forced the Liberals to enact them.

Singh noted that the end of the Supply and Confidence Agreement does not automatically send voters to the polls—a majority of parliamentarians voting against the government on a confidence measure does. Singh said the NDP is ready for an election, and voting non-confidence will be on the table with each and every confidence measure.