Drain Open

 

Jagmeet Singh just pulled the plug on the NDP-Liberal pseudo-coalition.

This is as I predicted: he had to cancel it a decent interval before the next scheduled election, in order to give voters any reason to vote NDP instead of Liberal. He will now, to prove his bona fides, need to vote against the Liberals now in any plausible no-confidence motions.

This need not bring down the Liberal government. They could be kept in power by the BQ without the NDP.

But given the current polling, it probably will. The latest seat projections show the BQ becoming the official opposition, and both they and the NDP picking up 16 seats. So everyone but the Liberals has an incentive to force an election now.

I predict an election before Christmas.