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If there is a definition of "bittersweet victory," that is Justin Trudeau's. On the sweet side: the Prime Minister has revalidated his mandate, has achieved the first re-election of the Liberal Party Government in 16 years, and will be able to maintain his policy in favor of Canada's opening to the world economy, in stark contrast to that Donald Trump promotes in the United States. Perhaps it is something symbolic - and, given the changing character of the character, not very significant - but the fact that Donald Trump congratulated the Canadian on Twitter has, at least, a certain symbolic triumphant character.

Of course, that does not diminish the bitter side of the electoral result: the liberals have taken fewer votes than the Conservative Party, and even their natural allies of the New Democratic Party have achieved a much worse outcome than they expected. Trudeau will have to court the vote of the followers of Jagmeet Singh, who with his social proposals and defense of the environment will force him to bet 'double or nothing' for a series of policies that have destroyed the Liberal Party in the oil provinces and agricultural of Saskatchewan and Alberta. The left, the right and the Québec nationalists have won votes at the expense of the center-leftist Liberal Party.

So Trudeau will not be as much a referee as a hostage. And that is going to force the Canadian prime minister to adapt to a new situation for him. Throughout his political career, Trudeau has shown that he enjoys when he is under the spotlight, and that he likes to announce decisions. What is not clear is that he likes to implement many of the decisions he announces. Now he will have to play a much more discreet trick, as a pragmatic leader and dialogue in the facts, not just in the words.

That can cause more than one headache. The New Democratic Party, most likely, will demand tougher measures against the Canadian oil industry, the closure of tax exemptions for higher-income taxpayers, and a more active defense of indigenous minorities. That, in turn, will face Trudeau with the Conservative Party. And, meanwhile, the prime minister will have to deal with a grown Quebec nationalism.

In his favor, however, it must be said that the Canadian Prime Minister has already known how to adapt to his new status, since the scandal erupted in winter due to an attempt to interfere in Justice in the case of corruption of the SNC- Lavalin, and that has carried out a very discreet electoral campaign, far from the egocentrism that had been his hallmark. So Trudeau, as a political animal that he is, could adapt to his new situation. A situation in which the head of the Canadian Government will discover by the brave ones that to govern is not to promise the impossible, but to exercise the art of the possible.

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