Bloc Québécois seeks deals with Liberals as NDP ends deal – National

THE Quebec Bloc says he is ready to negotiate with the Prime Minister Justin Trudeau party to gain support in confidence votes now that the Liberal government’s confidence and credit agreement with the NDP has ended.

And the sovereignist party led by Yves-François Blanchet has already drawn up a list of demands.

In an interview ahead of the party’s caucus retreat scheduled for Monday in the Outaouais region, Bloc parliamentary leader Alain Therrien said his party is happy to regain the balance of power.

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He called the situation a “window of opportunity” now that the Liberals are truly a minority government.

New Democratic Party Leader Jagmeet Singh’s decision to withdraw from the confidence and supply agreement last week leaves an opening for the Bloc, the party says.

While Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives have promised multiple confidence votes in the hopes of triggering a general election, the Bloc’s strategy is not to rush to trigger one, but rather to use its new position to achieve what it sees as gains for Quebec.