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Exactly. The NDP has refused to go along with the Conservatives bringing down the government for a while now. Instead, Singh just constantly said Trudeau had to go but won't vote to kick out the Liberals.
Then, all of a sudden, after Trudeau resigns (Freeland has to play a role here) and prorogues Parliament, Singh is suddenly on-board when...he can do nothing cause Parliament is suspended for months until the Liberals pick a new leader.
The cynical explanation is that this has little to do with Trump: the NDP knows they're utterly done due to backing the Liberals for so long and Singh deliberately ran out the clock so he could get his pension.
I think you actually have the causation backwards: Trudeau lost Singh's support, then he resigned. Singh took a more-firm-than-typical stance against the Liberals after the winter break started, which is what prompted the most recent rounds of Poilievre pushing non-confidence motions. If all had gone according to plan, the government would have fallen about a month later. Instead, Trudeau resigned and prorogued parliament as they search for his successor.
Yes. The Saskatchewan party ran on the connection of the Federal Liberals -> Federal NDP -> Provincial NDP. Blaming Carla Beck for Justin Trudeau's actions seems to have worked, so it absolutely would work for Singh as well.
I think that Singh's pension is a meme. It's a nice jab, but I'd bet that he'll get reelected in his seat. The only examples I could find of a party leader losing their seat are:
I think it happened to the Green Party too, but they don't count. High-profile politicians generally don't lose their own seats.
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