Canada's Trudeau ekes out narrow win in COVID-dominated election
CALGARY, Alberta, Sept 21 - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau narrowly won re-election on Monday but failed to secure a majority in parliament, after alienating some voters by calling a snap vote two years early during a fourth wave of the pandemic.
Trudeau, 49, took a gamble with his early election call two years ahead of schedule, betting that his handling of the pandemic and Canada's high vaccination rates would deliver him a stronger mandate to rule after the 2019 vote left him with a minority government.
During the 2019 campaign, photos emerged of a younger Trudeau wearing blackface and he was twice censured for ethics violations during his first term in office.
Obama endorsed Trudeau last week, as he did in the 2019 election.
Their friendship contrasts with a sometimes rocky relationship with former U.S. President Donald Trump, who once called Trudeau "Two-faced" after a video emerged that appeared to show Trudeau and other world leaders mocking Trump.
Relations between Trudeau and current President Joe Biden are more harmonious, despite Biden ignoring Canada's objections and revoking a permit for the Keystone XL oil pipeline on his first day in office.
there were speculations and ducked up arguments sessions in our previous threads on if covid and lockdowns were a political tool for the next election and it turns out yes, the 1+ year of lockdown was their mission to incline more people to vote for them and who suffered from it?
i stopped discussing politics here in the forum when most folks didn't want to hear it, and I didn't want to make them feel bad about the decisions they took to come to the pool, so waited to see this headline for almost 8 months. Thanks Reuters. being in the pool least gave us all a thread of hope and it was the only one.