Wednesday October 8, 2025 | OTTAWA, ON [Posted at 5:30 pm PT]
by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends
NDP Interim Leader Don Davies met with Prime Minister Mark Carney last week to discuss “the circumstances facing our country”.
“Especially in advance of an important budget,” the NDP Leader added. The Liberal government’s first budget under Prime Minister Mark Carney is coming up November 4.
Davies made these remarks in a press conference held ahead of today’s House of Commons Question Period.
“It was an opportunity for me to lay out our perspective as New Democrats on where we think our economy is and what we think is needed at this point in time,” said Davies in his opening remarks to media about the meeting he had with Carney last week.
“As a strong New Democrat opposition we are going to be supporting policies that we agree with and we will opposing policies that we don’t,” is what Davies told Carney.
“And therefore we will wait until that budget comes out and we will evaluate the budget based on what’s contained in it,” said Davies.
Supporting investment, not austerity:
“The NDP will not be able to support a budget that takes an austerity approach,” Davies says is the NDP stance and that he was clear on communicating that to the Liberal prime minister.
“When we are facing serious economic headwinds and challenges from south of the border, that an economically contractionist approach to our economy is not what is called for but rather we need to be investing,” said Davies.
That investment needs to be in communities, businesses, workers and infrastructure, as outlined by Davies today.
The NDP is calling for “a substantive investment in jobs, housing and health care,” said Davies.
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