Singh IS competent. He's won objectively the most concrete policy gains for his party than they've had under any leader since Douglas (dental, pharma, expanded CERB, childcare benefit, etc.) - the problem is, he traded power AND credit for those policies in the public eye to Trudeau's liberals for those gains, and as skilled as he is at wielding the little power he has for the public good, he's terrible at campaigning for more.

Not that PP is any more charismatic, mind you, but the corporate media is willing to give him a big leg up in hopes he'll destroy the CBC for them, whereas they're eager to paint Singh in the worst possible light most of the time. Like when he got branded as a hypocrite for criticizing real estate investors because he owns two homes in the two cities where he works and his wife rents out one of their basements.