Jagmeet Singh wouldn’t listen in 2022 when it was suggested propping up the Trudeau Liberals wasn’t a good idea.

Trudeau was not a popular leader. His days as the shiny new face in Ottawa were well behind him. At the time the “supply and confidence agreement” was reached the country had just endured an ill-timed election, called by the prime minister two years before it was due in hopes of leveraging the COVID-19 crisis into a majority government. The gambit didn’t work and Trudeau was handed another minority, almost identical to the one he’d already had.