ROTHENBURGER: Liberal-NDP deal isn’t the scary socialist monster Tories say it is
‘GOD HELP US ALL,’ tweeted interim Conservative leader Candice Bergen after yesterday’s news that the governing federal Liberals and the NDP have agreed to a “supply and confidence” arrangement.
The deal means the NDP will support the Liberals on all confidence votes in return for endorsing some key NDP objectives such as dental care and “continuing progress” on pharmacare.
According to the Tories, this amounts to “backdoor socialism,” “government by blackmail” and “vote buying.”
E-gads, that sounds scary. According to Bergen, the deal will even help Putin’s war against Ukraine because NDP leader Jagmeet Singh has been a strong opponent of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. That the NDP-Liberal agreement is “a way to prop up Putin” is as ridiculous as it sounds, but it does provide a perfect vehicle for Conservatives to spread fear of the radical left taking over Canada’s political agenda.