ANALYSIS: After Breaking Agreement With Liberals, Will NDP Seek an Election Before 2025?

While NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says that breaking his party’s supply and confidence agreement with the Liberals makes an early election “more likely,” political analysts say the party is not likely to cause an election to be held in 2024 “He’s going to need months and months to make the case that he isn’t just the same description as the prime minister and the Liberal Party,” said Tim Powers, chairman of Summa Strategies. “Part of the reason they’ve gone down [in the polls]—they think, and probably they’re not wrong—is that they’re so closely aligned with the Liberals. So if an election happens sooner, that is of no benefit to them.”...