OTTAWA—NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is challenging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to recall Parliament and refrain from calling a snap summer election as all parties prepare for a federal campaign that is widely expected to start soon. “It is within your power to bring your ministers back off the pre-campaign trail, recall the House and get to work,” Singh writes. Trudeau responded days later by blasting opposition parties for tactics to stall legislation in the House. “If Parliament is dysfunctional, then you yourself have played a leading role in that dysfunction,” Singh writes in his letter. Trudeau, meanwhile, has declined to answer when he might try to call the next federal election.

Source: thestar August 09, 2021 22:31 UTC