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Canada election: Liberals sweep to power


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Canada's Liberal Party has decisively won a general election, ending nearly a decade of Conservative rule.


The centrist Liberals, led by Justin Trudeau, started the campaign in third place but in a stunning turnaround now command a majority.


Mr Trudeau, the 43-year-old son of late Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, said Canadians had voted for real change.


Incumbent Conservative PM Stephen Harper accepted defeat and his party said he will step down as leader.


http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34578213


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Mr Trudeau, the 43-year-old

son of late Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau

Nepotism... :think:

could be...but his dad was the prime-minister 40 years ago not like the job got handed down.... and the son was not in politics for quite some time and is quite a new kid on the block when it comes to politics in Canada,,,, right place at the right time to win the party nomination at a time when everyone suddenly in mid election campaign decided the current political party needed to go away...politics is quite a strange animal in all countries isn't it

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Mr Trudeau, the 43-year-old

son of late Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau

Nepotism... :think:

could be...but his dad was the prime-minister 40 years ago not like the job got handed down.... and the son was not in politics for quite some time and is quite a new kid on the block when it comes to politics in Canada,,,, right place at the right time to win the party nomination at a time when everyone suddenly in mid election campaign decided the current political party needed to go away...politics is quite a strange animal in all countries isn't it

For us it's right away. Father gone, Son is here, it's not like we have another candidate anyway. What's more amazing now people even talk about the son of the son even while he's alive.

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my first thought would be nepotism too but dmog makes a very good point. there will be enough time to judge him based on his new administration. don't agree with one of his first decisions to pull out canadas involvement fighting against ISIS, is a big mistake if he thinks the world can leave ISIS alone and the problem of extremism propagating in that region will just go away..... but then again i'm not a soldier, so who am i to tell others put their lives on the line (but at least i'm not as shameless as cheney who sends people off to die for profit thx to the military industrial complex). i merely opinion that there will be bigger problems if you let ISIS to establish a foothold.... down the road....

still beats harper's administration that is anti science and just shuts them up when the facts don't go their way.

whats amazing is Canada does not have term limits o-o;

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