“This has been building for some time.”
That’s from Skeena-Bulkley Valley NDP MP Taylor Bachrach after yesterday’s (Wednesday) announcement the NDP would be leaving their confidence-and-supply agreement.
The agreement was made in 2022 with the Liberal party and was set to expire in June 2025.
“We haven’t been happy with the Liberal’s failure to rise to the moment and have Canadian’s backs during a time of unprecedented unaffordability,” Bachrach said.
While this has been something the party’s been looking at for a while, it was recent railroad events that sparked the action.
“When they forced the locked-out rail workers back to work using binding arbitration, that was just another thing showing that the agreement wasn’t working,” he said.
The agreement wasn’t without its benefits as Bachrach said the dental care program, pharmacare program, anti-scab legislation, and others wouldn’t have passed without it.
“The agreement has run its course. We’ve exited from it. Now we’re going to take on the conservatives and their plan to cut things that people rely on,” the MP said.
With the split, a federal election could come this fall should a vote of non-confidence be made during the fall parliamentary sitting.
This would be happening around the same time as the BC election scheduled for October 19th.
“I imagine how [BC Residents] would be overwhelmed to be facing two elections at the same time,” said Bachrach.
“At the same time, there’s no telling how this parliament is going to shape up.”
Parliament restarts September 16th.
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