PoliticianPolitical leaning: LiberalProfile last reviewed: 2026-07-30
Jagmeet Singh
Former Leader of the New Democratic Party
Social-democratic NDP leader who traded confidence votes for dental care and pharmacare, then resigned after the party's worst-ever 2025 result.
Jagmeet Singh led the federal NDP from 2017 through a supply-and-confidence deal that kept Liberals in power in exchange for dental care and pharmacare progress. In the 2025 campaign he defended that choice, saying he could not stomach a Poilievre majority, promised full pharmacare within four years and low-interest public-backed mortgages, then resigned on election night after the NDP lost official party status and he lost Burnaby Central.
Basis for the leaning assessment
Editorial estimate; community votes and AI should override. Strong left on pharmacare, dental care and public housing finance; anti-Conservative strategic cooperation defined his late leadership.
Current Stances
Stances are editorial interpretations, always shown with the statements and actions they rest on.
Wealth & Inequalityobserved 2025-04-16 – 2025-04-25
Universal pharmacare and dental care as core redistribution
Singh treats national dental care and pharmacare as the NDP's price for keeping Liberals in office and as unfinished business toward universal drug coverage within four years.
Supporting statements & actions (3)
2025-04-16Speech
We will get the job done, putting in place a universal program within four years.
2025 NDP campaign commitment on universal pharmacare, expanding from diabetes drugs and contraceptives toward full coverage; Globe and Mail also covered Singh's pharmacare expansion fight.
2025-04-25Speech
I could not stomach the idea of Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives forming a majority government. I knew that was going to be bad.
Toronto campaign stop defending the decision not to topple Liberals in fall 2024 despite Conservative poll leads.
Core defence of the supply-and-confidence era as election losses mounted.
2025-04-25Speech
We wanted more time. We wanted people to actually benefit from the dental care and the pharmacare. We wanted people to actually get those benefits. We wanted to improve people's lives.
Same Toronto availability explaining why New Democrats kept Liberals afloat long enough for programs to reach households.
Housing & Cost of Livingobserved 2025-03-30 – 2025-03-30
CMHC low-interest public mortgages for first-time buyers
Singh argues first-time buyers deserve the same low-interest public lending long available to large corporations.
Supporting statements & actions (1)
2025-03-30Speech
Large corporations have been receiving low-interest loans from the federal government — Liberals and Conservatives have been giving them low-interest loans for a long time. But they haven't been helping our first-time homebuyer buy their home. I think that's wrong.
Port Moody, B.C. campaign stop pledging CMHC low-interest public-backed mortgages for first-time buyers.
NDP housing contrast with Liberal and Conservative GST-cut offers.
Austerity & the Stateobserved 2025-04-25 – 2025-04-28
Expand public social programs even under minority leverage
Singh defends using confidence votes to grow federal health and housing programs rather than risk a Conservative majority that would cut them.
Supporting statements & actions (3)
2025-04-25Speech
We wanted more time. We wanted people to actually benefit from the dental care and the pharmacare. We wanted people to actually get those benefits. We wanted to improve people's lives.
Same Toronto availability explaining why New Democrats kept Liberals afloat long enough for programs to reach households.
2025-04-25Speech
I could not stomach the idea of Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives forming a majority government. I knew that was going to be bad.
Toronto campaign stop defending the decision not to topple Liberals in fall 2024 despite Conservative poll leads.
Core defence of the supply-and-confidence era as election losses mounted.
2025-04-28Speech
Goals
Short-term
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Long-term
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Consistency Tracker
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Tension
Earlier statement / action
2025-04-25Speech
I could not stomach the idea of Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives forming a majority government. I knew that was going to be bad.
Toronto campaign stop defending the decision not to topple Liberals in fall 2024 despite Conservative poll leads.
Core defence of the supply-and-confidence era as election losses mounted.
Later statement / action
2025-04-28Speech
Obviously I'm disappointed that we could not win more seats. But I'm not going anywhere — New Democrats are not going anywhere.
Election-night concession in Burnaby after announcing he would resign as leader once an interim replacement was named; NDP headed for its worst result and loss of official party status per CBC and Wikipedia.
Ended Singh's leadership after he also lost his own seat.
Singh said keeping Liberals afloat was necessary to block Poilievre and lock in social programs; days later he resigned after the NDP's worst result. Allies credit dental and pharmacare gains that Conservatives later hesitated to scrap; critics say the deal erased NDP distinctiveness, transferred left voters to Carney Liberals, and destroyed official party status.
Most-Cited Sources from Voterscommunity reading list
Articles readers attached to their poll votes as evidence. Only pages cited independently by two or more voters are listed.
- 1en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagmeet_Singh ↗
Cited by 8 voters
Liberal 6Conservative 2 - 2www.ipolitics.ca/2025/03/30/singh-promises-low-interest-public-backed-mortgages-in-first-campaign-stop-in-b-c ↗
Cited by 7 voters
Liberal 6Conservative 1 - 3www.cbc.ca/news/politics/no-regrets-about-keeping-liberal-government-afloat-says-ndp-s-singh-1.7518892 ↗
Cited by 4 voters
Liberal 4
Most-Discussed Moments
The statements and actions that set social media on fire — top 3, in chronological order. Every entry links to its source.
- 2025-03-30Speech
Large corporations have been receiving low-interest loans from the federal government — Liberals and Conservatives have been giving them low-interest loans for a long time. But they haven't been helping our first-time homebuyer buy their home. I think that's wrong.
Port Moody, B.C. campaign stop pledging CMHC low-interest public-backed mortgages for first-time buyers.
NDP housing contrast with Liberal and Conservative GST-cut offers.
- 2025-04-25Speech
I could not stomach the idea of Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives forming a majority government. I knew that was going to be bad.
Toronto campaign stop defending the decision not to topple Liberals in fall 2024 despite Conservative poll leads.
Core defence of the supply-and-confidence era as election losses mounted.
Timeline of Statements & Actions6 records, newest first
2025-04-28Speech
Singh said he would be stepping down as soon as an interim leader could be appointed.
Factual paraphrase of Singh's election-night resignation announcement after the NDP was projected below the 12-seat official-party threshold and he trailed in Burnaby Central.
2025-04-28Speech
Obviously I'm disappointed that we could not win more seats. But I'm not going anywhere — New Democrats are not going anywhere.
Election-night concession in Burnaby after announcing he would resign as leader once an interim replacement was named; NDP headed for its worst result and loss of official party status per CBC and Wikipedia.
Ended Singh's leadership after he also lost his own seat.
2025-04-25Speech
We wanted more time. We wanted people to actually benefit from the dental care and the pharmacare. We wanted people to actually get those benefits. We wanted to improve people's lives.
Same Toronto availability explaining why New Democrats kept Liberals afloat long enough for programs to reach households.