Trudeau Wins Majority, Ends Nearly a Decade of Conservative Leadership
Well, would you look at this. After nine years under Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative party, Canadian voters have officially handed the election to Justin Trudeau, giving the Liberal party 184 of the 338 seats in the next House of Commons, according to the New York Times.
The Conservative party will now hold 99 seats.
Though the win was uncertain in polls leading up to the election, the CBC and CTV both projected a win for Canada’s Liberal party on Monday night. “This is what positive politics can do,” Trudeau, son of beloved former PM Pierre Elliott Trudeau, told supporters early Tuesday. “I didn’t make history tonight, you did.”
So modest.
Speaking to a crowd of supporters in Calgary after his loss became apparent, Harper conceded, “While tonight’s result is certainly not the one we had hoped for, the people are never wrong.”
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