Jagmeet Singh’s ‘Amnesia Campaign’

The NDP Leader really hopes you forget the past two-and-a-half years.

By Spencer Fernando, Exclusive to the National Citizens Coalition

Jagmeet Singh is about to launch the ultimate ‘Amnesia Campaign.’

After ending the supply and confidence agreement with the Liberals -- albeit without committing to bringing down the government and going to an election -- Singh is attempting to rebrand himself as a legitimate opposition leader.

He’s already campaigning as if he stands apart from Justin Trudeau and the Liberals.

He intends to blame the dire state of Canada solely on the Liberals, claim the Liberals have no chance of winning, demonize the Conservatives, and hope that leaves the NDP in a dominant position when the votes come rolling in on Election Night.

But to pull it off, Jagmeet Singh needs something from all of us:

He needs us to forget the past two-and-a-half years.

While Canada wasn’t a paradise two-and-a-half years ago, there was good reason to believe things would move in a positive direction. 

As we emerged from the economic damage of Covid and Covid lockdowns, there was hope that a rapid economic recovery -- a return to the pre-pandemic growth trend -- would take place.

And that’s exactly what happened in many places.

But not in Canada.

While our neighbours to the south and other peer nations saw a quick recovery in terms of both overall growth and per capita GDP, Canada went in a different direction.

Our per capita GDP has now fallen for five consecutive quarters, leaving Canadians poorer than we were before.

Of course, that didn’t spare us from getting slammed by inflation.

But again, unlike our American counterparts and other peer nations, Canadians didn’t have strong per capita GDP growth to offset the impact of inflation.

We got poorer and poorer even as prices kept going up.

This has resulted in the Trudeau era being a lost decade for Canada’s economy. 

And here’s where Jagmeet Singh runs into a big problem.

The three worst years of the Trudeau government -- from an economic and standard of living perspective -- were 2022, 2023, and 2024.

Those are the years in which the Liberals -- having already massively ramped up spending during the pandemic -- continued to pour more fuel on the inflationary fire, flooding the economy with borrowed money and driving down our purchasing power.

And most egregiously, the Liberals took Canada’s immigration system -- once the envy of the world -- and completely wrecked it.

They ramped up the Temporary Foreign Worker program resulting in a massive influx of cheap labour that drove down the bargaining power of Canadian workers, made the job market nightmarish for young Canadians, weakened Canada’s social cohesion, and inflamed anti-immigrant sentiment. 

Not to mention the fact that many of those who were admitted into Canada have found themselves unable to find work, having been lied to about the real state of things in this country.

The expansion of the TFW program is one of the most anti-worker policies we’ve seen from the Canadian government in decades.

And Jagmeet Singh’s NDP supported it every step of the way.

The NDP supported Trudeau when he expanded the TFW program and screwed over Canadian workers.

The NDP supported Trudeau when he kept raising the carbon tax.

The NDP supported Trudeau when reckless government spending demolished our purchasing power.

The NDP supported Trudeau when he rejected the potential of selling more Canadian LNG to our democratic allies -- an opportunity quickly snapped up by the United States, Qatar, and other nations that chose to seize the chance to make hundreds of billions of dollars.

The NDP supported Trudeau's soft-on-crime policies that made our cities and communities more dangerous.

The NDP supported -- and even pushed for -- Trudeau’s pandering to anti-Semites.

The NDP supported Trudeau when the government embarked on a disastrous and deadly ‘safe supply’ experiment.

At every turn, the NDP has been in lockstep with the Liberals keeping them in power and helping them impose their most radical and damaging policies.

And now, all Canadians are living with the consequences.

Does Jagmeet Singh really think we’re going to forget all of that?

If so, he has an even lower opinion of Canadians than most Canadians have of him.

Spencer Fernando is one of the most popular and prolific political voices in Canada. He is a writer and campaign fellow for the National Citizens Coalition. Join the mailing list to receive his exclusive weekly columns in your inbox.

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