Justin Trudeau claimed that Canadian voters had rejected division and negativity. Not quite
after election day, Justin Trudeau appeared at a metro station in his Montreal constituency of Papineau to offer hugs, kisses and selfies to commuters. Perhaps he was in need of an ego boost. Although he survived as prime minister, his Liberal Party lost its parliamentary majority and received fewer votes than the opposition Conservatives . The election exposed deep regional divisions and will compel him to seek support for his programme from rival parties.
The splits laid bare by the election are mainly regional. The Liberals lost their five seats in the western oil- and gas-producing provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. The Conservatives won all but one of the provinces’ 48 seats. In Quebec, Canada’s French-speaking province, the big winner was the Bloc Québécois, a separatist party.
The Liberals’ main partner is likely to be the left-wing New Democratic Party , led by Jagmeet Singh. It will be no obstacle to enacting Mr Trudeau’s main legislative priorities. These include a fresh tax cut for the middle class, a ban on assault weapons and more ambitious targets for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases. The two parties also agree on investing in low-rent housing. Both want a federal-government-run drug plan, but Mr Singh’s ideas would probably be more expensive.
As the election showed, it did not work. Alberta and Saskatchewan have long chafed at the greater power of the more populous central provinces of Ontario and Quebec. Their anger has deepened since 2014, when global oil prices slumped, causing regional hardship. Jason Kenney, the Conservative premier of Alberta, blames the Liberals’ climate-change policies for worsening the situation.and the Greens.
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