There doesn’t appear to be any benefit for the NDP having Jagmeet Singh as their leader. In the end, Justin Trudeau’s failure could be blamed on his horrible picks for his cabinet as well as his merger with Jagmeet Singh, that will be the story line moving forward, when history writes about why Justin Trudeau was such a failure.
The Liberal Party, will have to rebuild and part of the story will be who to blame, and the truth of the matter is that had Jack Layton been the leader of the NDP, the disastrous shape Canada is in now, would have never happened.
Jack Layton was responsible for Harper being elected, when the then Paul Martin Liberals where caught in their corruption scandal, unlike Jagmeet Singh, Jack Layton, forced an election, trusting the Canadian public would decide what’s best moving forward.
Jagmeet Singh is more like a dictator, enjoying his role as the man who will be blamed for allowing Canada’s most incompetent Prime Minister to reign long after his expiry date. If you’re Justin Trudeau, you’re taking advantage of borrowed time granted to you by Jagmeet Singh, and it’s very interesting that the Liberal Party could screw over Jagmeet Singh and call an early election, comfortably being the opposition party while they get rid of everything Trudeau related and rebuild their Party brand.
This Toronto byelection loss, can actually help the Liberals to rebuild their brand now, and one of the more effective ways to do that would be to fire Justin Trudeau, add some fresh faces, and rebuild the Party, so in 3 years they can challenge to run the country again. On the flipside to this is Jagmeet Singh, who is now branded as Trudeau’s puppet and someone who you can’t trust to lead the country.
People will look at Jagmeet Singh as Justin Trudeau 3.0, and if TORONTO rejects Justin Trudeau, then Jagmeet Singh’s NDP is officially a FRINGE party at best.