Canadians voted Monday in a tight pandemic election that could weaken Prime Minister Justin Trudeau or reward his government’s handling of the pandemic.
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Conservative leader Erin O’Toole’s campaign chair said holding Trudeau to a minority government would be a win for O’Toole.“Even without a plurality [of seats] today, we will have achieved our objective,” Walied Soliman told the Toronto Star on Monday. “At the start of this race, nobody would’ve expected that we’d be in a knife fight in strongly held Liberal [districts]. And today we are. And we are very proud of Erin O’Toole and the incredible campaign that has been run here.
A combination of high expectations, scandal and calling the vote during the pandemic has hurt the brand of the 49-year-old prime minister, who channeled the star power of his father, the Liberal icon and late Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, when he first won election in 2015. “We do not need a Conservative government that won’t be able to show the leadership on vaccinations and on science that we need to end this,” Trudeau said at a campaign stop in Montreal on Sunday.
O’Toole advertised himself a year ago as a “true-blue Conservative.” He became Conservative Party leader with a pledge to “take back Canada,” but immediately started working to push the party toward the political center. Byrne, the campaign manager for Harper, said there is a lack of enthusiasm among Conservatives across the country.
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