Restoring his personal brand may be the least of Justin Trudeau's concerns. Canada's election results point to a sharply divided country
CANADA’S GENERAL ELECTION, held on October 21st, proved more divisive than decisive. With just a few votes still to be counted, Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party has squandered the handsome majority it won in 2015, losing around 30 seats in the 338-seat Parliament, mostly to the Conservatives and the separatist Bloc Québécois. The Conservatives won the largest share of the popular vote. Now Mr Trudeau must contemplate life as the leader of a minority government.
Mr Trudeau’s first task will be to find a party to back his government. Canada has plenty of experience of Parliaments in which no party has a majority, for example in 2004, 2006 and 2008. The Liberals’ most natural partner is the New Democratic Party . The NDP’s leader, Jagmeet Singh, said during the campaign he would do “whatever it takes” to keep the Conservatives from power.
Yet if the Liberals are pushed to the left by Mr Singh and the NDP, this will sharpen the alienation already felt by solidly Conservative Alberta and Saskatchewan. With their smaller populations, they have long chafed at the imbalance of power between them and the more populous central provinces. Their anger has deepened since 2014, when global oil prices slumped, causing local economic hardship.
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