OTTAWA — The new minority parliament opened on Thursday with a throne speech from the Liberals that emphasized collaboration but was immediately attacked as an insult to the West by the Conservatives. NDP leader Jagmeet Singh said the speech was “not good enough,” pointing to the lack of details about a national pharmacare program. Overall, Throne speech talks about unity in a minority parliament, big focus on climate and reconciliation and small measures that appear to me to be attempts to reach out to the Bloc and NDP. “We know that we are inextricably bound to the same space-time continuum and on board the same planetary spaceship,” she told the parliamentarians. The speech, as expected heading into a minority parliament situation, called on MPs and senators to cooperate on behalf of Canadians.

Source: National Post December 05, 2019 20:48 UTC