Singh Says Rail Back-to-Work Legislation Would Break Deal With Liberals

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said he would not support the federal government implementing back-to-work legislation to bring an end to the railway strike, even if it were a confidence vote that would break the party’s supply and confidence agreement with the Liberals over the issue. “If it’s a confidence vote, that’s breaking the agreement. We always have the right to withdraw our support from the agreement, and that remains our position. We can always pull away. We can always break it,” Singh told reporters on Aug. 22. Singh’s comments came hours before the federal government announced it would intervene in the railway labour dispute to force arbitration. Federal Labour Minister Steve MacKinnon said he was invoking Section 107 of the Labour Code to direct the Canada Industrial Relations Board to impose final binding arbitration....