Canada: Trudeau’s Liberals win election, but miss majority-News

The Canadian allowed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party to win the parliamentary election on Monday, but his gamble to win the majority of seats failed.

The Liberal Party is expected to win the most seats of any party. The 49-year-old Trudeau channeled the star power of his father, the Liberal icon and late Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, when he first won election in 2015 and now appeared to have led his party to the top finish in two elections since.

The Liberal Party leads in 156 regions, the Conservative Party leads in 123 regions, the Quebec Group Quebec leads in 29 regions, the left-wing New Democratic Party leads in 28 regions, and the Green Party leads in two regions.

Trudeau did not win enough seats to avoid having to rely on the help of other parties to pass legislation. When Trudeau participated in the elections, he led a stable minority government that did not face the threat of being overthrown.

The opposition ruthlessly accused Trudeau of holding unnecessary early voting two years before the deadline for his personal ambitions.

Trudeau bet Canadians don’t want a Conservative government during the pandemic. Canada is now one of the countries with the highest vaccination rate in the world. The Trudeau government spent hundreds of billions of dollars to support the economy during the lockdown. He believes that the Conservative Party has been skeptical of the lockdown and mandatory vaccine requirements will be dangerous. And said that Canadians need a government that follows science.

Conservative Party leader Erin O’Toole did not ask his party candidates to be vaccinated, nor did he specify how many people were not vaccinated. O’Toole describes vaccination as a personal health decision, but more and more Canadians who have been vaccinated are increasingly dissatisfied with those who refuse to get vaccinated.

Trudeau supports the mandatory requirement for Canadians to travel by air or rail to vaccinate, while the Conservative Party opposes this practice. Trudeau pointed out that Alberta, which is managed by the Conservative Provincial Government, is in crisis.

O’Toole’s ally, Alberta Governor Jason Kenny said the province may run out of beds and staff in the intensive care unit within a few days. Kenny apologized for the terrible situation and now reluctantly rolls out a vaccine passport and compulsory work from home two months after removing almost all restrictions.

“Arrogance made Trudeau call the election. He and the Liberal Party won the election, but lost the prizes they were looking for. For the Liberal Party, it was just a good night, because two weeks ago, they seemed to be gambling the election. There was a complete loss of government in things that were unimaginable before,” said Nelson Wiseman, a professor of political science at the University of Toronto.

Wiseman said the Conservative Party was hurt by the situation in Alberta. He said: “The outbreak of the Alberta pandemic in the past 10 days has weakened O’Toole’s praise of how Alberta’s Conservative Party responded to the pandemic and strengthened Trudeau’s argument about mandatory vaccination.”

The victory of the Conservative Party will represent Trudeau’s condemnation of an unknown politician. 47-year-old O’Toole is a veteran, a former lawyer, and a member of Congress for 9 years.

A year ago, O’Toole labelled himself as a “true conservative.” He became the leader of the Conservative Party, vowing to “take back Canada”, but immediately began to work hard to push the party to the political center.

O’Toole’s strategy, which includes denying his party’s position on issues such as climate change, guns, and balanced budgets, aims to attract a wider range of voters to the south of a country that is often far more free.

The son of a long-time politician faces criticism, he will say and do anything to choose.

Whether the moderate Canadian believes O’Toole is the progressive conservative he claims, and whether he alienates the traditional Conservative Party, has become the central issue of the campaign.

Adrian Archambault, a 53-year-old Vancouver resident, voted for the Liberal Party and said he didn’t mind that the election was held during the pandemic. He pointed out that provincial elections were also held during the pandemic.

He said: “In the past few years, everyone has been so fascinated by Covid. Rechecking may not be a bad thing.”

Trudeau’s legacy includes accepting immigrants when the United States and other countries are closed. He also legalized cannabis nationwide and imposed a carbon tax in response to climate change. When former U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to cancel the agreement, he retained the free trade agreement with the United States and Mexico.

Former US President Barack Obama and former Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton supported Trudeau on Twitter. There is no Trump’s endorsement of O’Toole. Conservative campaign co-chair Walid Soliman said there is no agreement between O’Toole and Trumpism. Soliman said earlier in the day that allowing Trudeau to join the minority government would be a victory for O’Toole.

Daniel Belland, professor of political science at McGill University, said: “Trudeau lost the gamble to win the majority, so I think it was a bittersweet victory for him.”

“Basically we are back to square one, because the new minority parliament looks the same as before. Trudeau and the Liberal Party have saved their skin and will continue to be in power, but many do not want to hold the pandemic elections at the end of the summer. Canadians may not be amused by the whole situation,” he said.