Global News published this video item, entitled “Canada election: NDP sees little growth in election despite holding balance of power” – below is their description.
New Democrat Leader Jagmeet Singh expressed disappointment at the federal election results Tuesday morning, after the NDP failed to materialize a bigger improvement to its seat count in Parliament.
The party is currently elected or leading in 25 seats across Canada – almost exactly like its final result of 24 seats in the 2019 federal election.
As Robin Gill reports, despite Singh’s surging popularity as a leader throughout the race, some experts believe that his campaign was all style and no substance when it came to policy.
Canada is a country in the northern part of North America. It extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles), making it the world’s second-largest country by total area.
Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching 8,891 kilometres (5,525 mi), is the world’s longest bi-national land border. Canada’s capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
Various Indigenous peoples inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years before European colonization. The Canada Act 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British Parliament. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy in the Westminster tradition, with a monarch and a prime minister who serves as the chair of the Cabinet and head of government.
As a highly developed country, Canada has the seventeenth-highest nominal per-capita income globally as well as the thirteenth-highest ranking in the Human Development Index. Its advanced economy is the tenth-largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources and well-developed international trade networks.