Canada: Justin Trudeau's Liberals given winners but again in the minority

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, here with his family at the headquarters of the Liberal Party in Montreal, re-elected as head of government during the legislative elections on September 20, 2021. AFP - SEAN KILPATRICK

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Canadian voters have chosen Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister for the third consecutive time since 2015. The leader of the Liberal Party called a snap election just over a month ago.

He said he wanted to poll Canadians on how to revive the country after the pandemic, but his opponents accused him of wanting a majority of MPs, he who governed the country in a minority fashion.

Finally, the result of the ballot is not very different from the composition of Parliament before its dissolution in August. 

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With our correspondent in Montreal,

Pascale Guéricolas

All that for that, one could say, by counting the number of Liberal members elected in Canada after 36 days of electoral campaign.

If Justin Trudeau does not lose power at the expense of his Conservative rival, as he feared for a moment, he is not winning the majority he hoped for either.

More or less, the representation of parties in the House of Commons remains identical to that of the last two years, except that the elections still cost 400 million euros.

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Failure of curator Erin O'Toole

Voters therefore do not seem to have agreed with the rather moderate speech of the Leader of the Opposition, the Conservative Erin O'Toole.

It must be said that his comments on weapons or the environment have often varied, as if he feared seeing the more right-wing support crumbling within his political formation.

It remains to be seen how long this new minority government will last.

To lead the country, Liberal Justin Trudeau will have to rely on at least one opposition party.

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