Ottawa – NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says his caucus will not cave to demands from the Bloc Québécois and Conservative leaders to help them bring down the Liberal government.
On Tuesday Bloc Leader Yves-François Blanchet(opens in a new tab) said he will make good on his threat to work with opposition parties to topple the minority Liberals(opens in a new tab) with a non-confidence vote.
The Conservatives and Bloc would also need support from the NDP to make that happen, but Singh says he’s not going to “play their games.”
Singh, who now holds the power to trigger the next election, says his party is ready for a campaign whenever the times comes. But he reiterates that the NDP’s vote will be decided on a case-by-case basis.
Singh accuses the Bloc of helping the Conservatives(opens in a new tab), who he says would make cuts to services and programs that people need.
Tory MPs support federal housing program that Poilievre vowed to cancel.
OTTAWA – A number of Conservative MPs have written letters to the Liberal housing minister asking him to grant their communities funding from a program that Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre this week called disastrous and promised to cancel. Housing Minister Sean Fraser made the revelation in the House of Commons Tuesday while responding to a question from Poilievre. ”What (Poilievre) doesn’t know is his caucus colleagues have been going behind his back, writing me letters advocating for their communities to receive funding through the housing accelerator fund because they believe it will get more homes built,” Fraser said.
“My question for the Conservative members of his caucus, will they have the courage to stand up and tell him he is wrong?”
Fraser said on Wednesday that at least a dozen Conservative MPs have written to his office.
The Canadian Press has reviewed five letters sent between September 2023 and February 2024 by Dan Albas, Michael Cooper, Adam Chambers, Lianne Rood and Rob Moore. The MPs represent ridings in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario and New Brunswick.
The letters asked Fraser to approve their communities’ applications to access the housing accelerator fund, a program that invited municipalities to compete for a pool of money based on the ambitiousness of their plans to build more housing.
Poilievre announced on Monday that he would abolish the program and instead use the money to fund his plan to scrap the federal sales tax on new homes sold for less than $1 million. He attacked the housing accelerator fund during a news conference, calling it a “disastrous program that has led to less homebuilding and more local bureaucracies.”..
Source:ctvnews.com
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
