Trudeau loses a mini-election
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau celebrated his 59th birthday last week, with many unhappy returns. In a record-breaking 15 by-elections across the country"mini-elections" in which nearly 1 million voters were involvedTrudeau's Liberals suffered a brutal whipping. The real target of the voters' wrath, clearly, was Trudeau himself.
Rarely, if ever, has a Canadian leader received such a repudiation outside of a general election. The Liberals, who had held seven of the seats that were speckled across seven of the country's ten provinces, managed to hold only twoboth in the party's...
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