Singh expects the 2023 budget to include specific progress on the NDP priorities listed in the NDP’s confidence-and-supply agreement with the Liberals, along with new funding for Canada’s health care system
Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says the party will continue to prop up the Liberal government but warns that support could be withdrawn if a national pharmacare framework isn’t unveiled by the end of this year.reached last year, Mr. Singh and his MPs agreed to keep the minority Liberal government in office until June, 2025, in exchange for policy action on a list of NDP priorities.
“We want to see national framework for pharmacare presented in Parliament and passed in Parliament by the end of the year,” Mr. Singh told reporters Thursday during a three-day caucus retreat in Ottawa before the Jan. 30 return of Parliament.Mr. Singh The NDP timeline is in line with a promise the government made in its April, 2022, budget, which was tabled shortly after the Liberals and NDP announced their co-operation agreement.
Mr. Singh said he expects the 2023 budget, which has not yet been scheduled, to include specific progress on the NDP priorities
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