Trudeau made pushing his agenda more complicated with failed bid for majority
CBC
Fall starts tomorrow, but Justin Trudeau flirted with a fall of his own in the early morning hours today.
The Liberal leader came up short trying to secure the majority mandate he wanted in forcing this early election five weeks ago, arguing Canadians needed a say in how Canada faces the challenges of the future.
What Canadians told him is that they liked the last minority government. They returned a near replica of the results in 2019, when the Liberals won 157 seats and the Conservatives took 121.
With hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots still to be counted, the final seat numbers for this election may change, but the preliminary numbers for the Liberals and the other three parties in the last Commons are remarkably similar.
Yet, despite that, Trudeau sounded a triumphant note when he addressed the nation in the wee hours Tuesday from Montreal.
"You are sending us back to work with a clear mandate to get Canada through this pandemic and to the brighter days ahead," he said. "And my friends, that's exactly what we are ready to do."
There was no acknowledgement that he once again will lead a country divided by region. He said nothing about how the Liberals once again failed to make inroads in the Prairies provinces, or take advantage of a Bloc Québécois campaign that struggled to find a raison d'être until the final 10 days of the race, when backlash in Quebec over a question in the English-language leaders' debate handed party leader Yves-François Blanchet the opening he couldn't create for himself.
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