Talk:Jagmeet Singh

Name
Although Jagmeet Singh is the name he uses for politics, his legal name is Jagmeet Singh Jimmy Dhaliwal. Unless you can provide evidence that Singh legally changed his name, not just stopped using part of it for political reasons, please don't edit how it appears at the start of the article (as per MOS:LEGALNAME).

Madg2011 (talk) 21:23, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

Where does it say "Jimmy" in this article? I don't see it. 142.112.230.183 (talk) 20:16, 15 January 2020 (UTC)


 * Singh's full name is Jagmeet Singh Jimmy Dhaliwal per his Law Society of Ontario registration and the Canadian Encyclopedia. I will adjust the article to reflect this. —WildComet talk 05:10, 28 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Jimmy is a nickname and is indicated as such with quotation marks in the Canadian Encyclopedia article. Instant Comma (talk) 01:33, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
 * User:Instant Comma the Canadian Encyclopedia is incorrect, see full context in this interview where he confirms Jimmy is part of his legal name: ITBF (talk) 23:52, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks for this. Point well taken. Instant Comma (talk) 00:27, 7 March 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 5 January 2023
The sentence that says "As of May 2019 Singh supported fracking" is false and it is literally the opposite of what the source says. Singh opposes fracking, he doesn't support it. I suggest you change the sentence to "Singh opposes fracking." This tiny fact isn't enough to be it's own paragraph so I suggest moving it to be the second sentence of the first paragraph in the section called "Environmental policy".

Thank you friend and have a good day. KevinAdamsDev (talk) 02:32, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Done. -- Mvqr (talk) 10:38, 5 January 2023 (UTC)

Confidence and supply agreement
I feel like there needs to be more article emphasis on this. He's arguably the most powerful federal NDP leader ever, because of his party's confidence and supply agreement with the governing Liberals. This agreement also arguably makes him one of the most powerful men in Canada, and more powerful than the official opposition leader. Jozsefs (talk) 09:39, 15 September 2023 (UTC)
 * WP:OR, and also just plainly no. The NDP under Tommy Douglas worked with the minority Pearson Liberals to implement Medicare nationwide over a PC Opposition and Liberal infighting, and Douglas was later voted the Greatest Canadian specifically for that (Pearson was 6th). The David Lewis NDP bargained with P.E. Trudeau to create Petro-Canada during the 70s oil crisis. The NDP under Bob Rae defeated the Joe Clark Tories' minority when they tried to add a wildly unpopular gas tax to their budget, still in the midst of the same oil crisis. Jack Layton helped take down minority governments twice: first Paul Martin's Liberals and then Stephen Harper's Conservatives. What has Singh accomplished? The confidence-and-supply agreement really just gives the Liberals carte blanche to govern as though they hold a majority, after agreeing to create a national dental care program and then doing it in the most half-baked way they possibly could have, and Singh isn't really trying to get anything else out of that agreement. Ivanvector (Talk/Edits) 12:43, 15 September 2023 (UTC)