The Dental Care Plan was part of the Political Agreement signed by Justin Trudeau and Jaghmet Singh. The other measures Justin Trudeau promised were Pharmacare and a law to protect striking workers against scabs. strike.

In exchange for these 3 laws, the NDP agreed to not bring-down the Trudeau Government :

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeu-jagmeet-singh-deal-government-1.6393021

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/dental-care-ndp-jagneet-singh-analysis-wherry-1.6797866

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/anti-scab-labour-federally-regulated-workplaces-1.7023020

I have my fair share of criticism with Jagmeet Singh. But I'm happy about what the NDP MPs achieved. Politics can be very ungrateful and brutal. Most Canadians may not be aware of it, but you made Canada a better country.

**What now ? **

This month, for the first time, the Dental Care Plan is expanding.

Pharmacare was created. The hard thing is going to be managing these 2 plans properly. It will require honest and determined leadership. I think Mark Carney will try to capitalize on them.

[–] Snowstorm@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

NDP got decimated but they functionally still hold the same weight of bargaining power : give this government stability in exchange for advancing their ideas.

The problem with this strategy being that, comes the next election, your own ideas won’t be differentiated from the ruling party and the next election will be a challenge.

Carney could be smart to form an alliance with the Bloc for exactly this reason : the distance between Liberal ideas and the Bloc is quite small : obstruct their effectiveness at opposing you with an alliance.

If the Bloc and NDP are smart they both ask for electoral reform as a condition to give the government stability.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do you mean by capitalize? Like he's going to keep them rolling out

[–] gonzo-rand19@moist.catsweat.com -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

cap·i·tal·ize /ˈkapədlˌīz/

verb 1. take the chance to gain advantage from. "do they have what it takes to capitalize on this emerging opportunity?"

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I mean how's he going to capitalize on it? Like taking the credit for it to increase his political capital or use it to reverse-leverage NDP into supplying further votes for when he need them to play along?

Please don't provide dictionary definitions as an answer, its almost never going to be what the person was requesting clarification about and comes across a bit gauche. Like if someone asks how to define something, sure, but its not super helpful here

[–] gonzo-rand19@moist.catsweat.com -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Like taking the credit for it to increase his political capital

Yes. It's obvious that he would want to do that, because it shows that something meaningful has been done while he's been in office regardless of who championed it. He has already done it on Twitter.

Please don't provide dictionary definitions as an answer, its almost never going to be what the person was requesting clarification about

Emphasis mine. The definition answered your question enough that you intuitively knew exactly what I was suggesting, but hey, if you want I can delete it and you can wait for a response for the person you originally replied to. They'll just say the same thing, but maybe you won't be upset about it.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Its more of a going concern, no concern about it staying or going and we've had a nice little sidebar out of it so Saul Goodman 🫡