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Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says his party will put forward a motion of non-confidence that could bring down Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Liberal government. Singh promises it will happen in the next sitting of the House of Commons. Richard Zussman has more.

After Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his intention to step down as the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said his party is still ready to bring down the government — no matter who the Liberal successor is. “Frankly, it’s not just Justin Trudeau,” Singh said. “So it doesn’t matter...

Responding to reporter’s questions about NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh’s pledge to bring a non-confidence motion when Parliament returns, Steven MacKinnon, newly appointed to the role of minister of employment, workforce development and labour, said opposition parties were “free to vote as they will.”

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has reshuffled his cabinet in an effort to reset things after Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland’s resignation on Monday. Now, NDP leader, Jagmeet Singh, has joined the Conservative party in the push for Trudeau’s resignation.

Canadian NDP leader Jagmeet Singh says “all options are on the table” in regards to a potential vote of non-confidence following the resignation of Deputy Prime Minister of Canada and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, hours before she was set to deliver the annual Fall Economic statement.

A day after Chrystia Freeland resigned as finance minister, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre insulted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, calling his government a “clown show” on Tuesday. Poilievre also called on NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh to join with him and call for a non-confidence vote to trigger a federal election.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke at a Liberal holiday party Monday night following the resignation of Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland earlier Monday. “It was an eventful day and not an easy day,” Trudeau said as he began his speech. After he was called to resign by NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his government wouldn’t “freak out like the NDP” over U.S. president-elect Donald Trump’s recent post on X calling Trudeau the “governor” of the “Great State of Canada” after NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh criticized Trudeau for his “weak” response to Trump’s tactics.

Canada’s Conservative Party accused the Trudeau Liberals of making a “deal” with NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh to stop the government from falling in Monday’s Opposition Day non-confidence vote in the House of Commons. The Liberals survived the third attempt to topple their minority government on Monday, with the NDP and Liberals voting against the motion.

The New Democrats and Liberals on Monday voted against the third, Conservative-led non-confidence motion in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s administration. NDP leader Jagmeet Singh told reporters Monday in Ottawa that they were not going to play Conservatives’ “games like that” and would instead continue working for Canadians.

Conservative MP Andrew Scheer says his party is “counting on” the NDP to vote in favour of the non-confidence motion tabled by Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre on Thursday morning and help topple the Liberal government. “We expect the NDP will support that, that they would not swallow themselves whole, and demonstrate the heights of their...

NDP leader Jagmeet Singh was in B.C. Friday, standing by his decision to block the Trudeau government’s $250 cheque program unless it’s expanded to many more people. Paul Johnson reports.

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says while he supports the Liberal plan to give Canadians a GST break during the holidays, he won’t back the $250 rebate proposal unless the government expands eligibility to the most vulnerable. The Liberals announced a plan last week to cut the federal sales tax on a raft of items such...

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said in Ottawa on Thursday that the Liberals “caved” to his party’s demand for a federal tax break on some essential items, after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Canadians will get a two-month GST break for select daily goods. Singh added the temporary aspect of the measure was a “Liberal letdown,”...

After U.S. president-elect Donald Trump proposed a 25-per cent tariff on all items coming into the United States once he takes office in January, debate was heated during question period in the House of Commons of Tuesday as both the Conservatives and the NDP pressured Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government to respond. “We need a plan...

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh pledged, during an event in Toronto Thursday, to remove the GST from food, cell phone bills and other essentials. Singh said if elected, the NDP would introduce an excess profit tax to pay for it.

While speaking at Canadian Club Toronto on Thursday, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh accused U.S. president-elect Donald Trump of introducing an agenda of “economic bullying” and touted what he said was the NDP plan to protect Canadian jobs.

Federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh says the Trudeau Liberals should not be allowed to keep ending major labour disputes with binding arbitration. Singh joins Global News Morning to talk about that and the legacy of former B.C. Premier John Horgan.

Speaking to reporters in Ottawa on Monday, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh responded to a social media post by Liberal MP Chandra Arya suggesting Sikh separatists “have effectively infiltrated into [Canadian] law enforcement agencies. “What I expect leaders to do is to bring down tensions, not escalate and not drive divisions with conspiracy theories,” Singh said...

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said on Wednesday his caucus would not help the Bloc Quebecois and Conservatives topple the Liberal government, telling reporters he was “not going to play their games.”