Toronto: NDP leader Jagmeet Singh and Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan along with seventeen Indo-Canadian won the Parliamentary elections in Canada with the Liberals party on Tuesday. Justin Trudeau, become the Prime Minister for the third term in Canada.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau again came into power in hotly contested elections against a rookie conservative leader, but he failed to gain absolute majority, according to projections by television networks.
He tweeted his thanks to the Canadian people in trusting the Liberals, “Thank you, Canada — for casting your vote, for putting your trust in the Liberal team, for choosing a brighter future. We’re going to finish the fight against COVID. And we’re going to move Canada forward. For everyone.”
Trudeau gambled on an early elections hoping to parlay a smooth Covid-19 vaccine rollout — among the best in the world — into a new mandate to steer the nation’s pandemic exit and pass his agenda without opposition support.
Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole, whose party placed second, conceded defeat as results trickled in late into the night. CBC and CTV projected that Trudeau’s Liberal government would hold a minority of seats in the House of Commons, meaning he will need another party’s support to govern.
Elections Canada showed the Liberals leading in 156 electoral districts nationally, one more than they held before the election, including 111 in vote-rich Ontario and Quebec.
About Justin Trudeau
Trudeau, 49, is a charismatic progressive and son of former Liberal Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. He came to power in 2015. But the Liberals dropped to a minority in 2019 after Trudeau was damaged in part by disclosures that he had worn blackface years ago.
Amid a fourth wave of COVID-19, Trudeau backed vaccine mandates while O’Toole, 48, opposed them, preferring a combination of voluntary vaccinations and rapid testing to stop the spread of the virus.
Trudeau had said he needed a new mandate to ensure Canadians approve of his plan for getting the country past the coronavirus pandemic. The Liberals, whose fiscal policy support for the pandemic exceed 23% of GDP, plan billions in new spending to support economic recovery if re-elected.
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