The minority Liberal government will be able to remain in power until 2025 thanks to an agreement reached with the NDP. Announcing the agreement on March 22, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the deal will help “not have Parliament be obstructive.” “When increasing polarization, dysfunction, or obstruction dominate our Parliament, when toxic partisanship prevents us from agreeing on simple truths and facts, when Parliament doesn’t work properly, progress stalls on the important and urgent issues Canadians expect solutions to,” Trudeau said at a press conference. This kind of agreement generally involves an opposition party agreeing to support the government on confidence motions and budget or appropriation votes for a certain period of time. The B.C. NDP struck a similar deal with the Greens in that province in 2017. Trudeau said his government made commitments to increase spending on health care, including establishing a national pharmacare and dental plan, in order …
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