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Election 2019 How Justin Trudeau survived
Conservatives win popular vote but
Justin Trudeau chose his enemies well — and secured a little help don’t get majority from a friend named Barack Obama. He was contrite following a racism scandal, waited out a corruption probe and banked on the appeal of his Despite falling short of their goal to unseat liberal policies and the positive press from his trade tangling with Donald their incumbent Liberal rivals on Monday Trump. The result: Trudeau may be diminished, personally and politically night, Andrew Scheer’s Conservative Party — but he’s still Prime Minister of Canada. actually came out with a win in the popular Continued on page 7 vote. According to CTV’s election results as Canadian election results and its of early Tuesday morning, the Conservatives took 6,154,085 of Canada’s nearly 18 million implications for India ballots cast, claiming 34.4 per cent of the Minority Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has of late popular vote compared to the Liberals’ 33.1 per cent -- a difference drawn flak from Conservative Canadians for his extreme of more than 230,000 votes. In the early hours of Tuesday morning, political correctness and immigration and economic Scheer took to the stage in his Saskatchewan home riding of Reginapolicies. While the Maharashtra and Haryana elections Qu’Appelle to address a crowded room of supporters, touting his have been creating buzz in India, far far away in Canada, party’s lead in popular support. “More Canadians wanted us to win the Federal Election results have been announced and this election than any other party,” he said, suggesting that means the might have interesting consequences for India. Conservatives are now the “government in waiting” and have “put Continued on page 7 Continued on page 20
Scaring voters helped Trudeau get most seats
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anadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pulled off a second consecutive election win on Monday with a late change in tactics designed to scare progressive voters who showed signs of abandoning Liberal candidates, four Liberal campaign sources said. As polls indicated he could lose, Trudeau ditched his “sunny ways” persona that had swept him to power in 2015 and started hammering away at Liberal leader & Prime Minister Justin Trudeau with his wife three smaller parties on the left, warning their supporters that if they didn’t vote Sophie Gregoire Trudeau (right) wave on the stage after federal election at the Palais des Congres in Montreal on October 21
Liberal, the progressive vote would splinter and allow the opposition Conservatives to take power. During the last two weeks of the campaign, Trudeau repeatedly told supporters that voting for the rival New Democrats, Bloc Quebecois and Greens would result in a progressive opposition, not a progressive government. “We’re doing this because it works,” one Liberal official said of the strategy as the campaign reached its climax last week. Continued on page 12
Trudeau’s newly elected minority gov’t won’t crumble any time soon Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has won second term in the office after a bruising and scandal-hit campaign that was light on policy and heavy on personality. Trudeau’s Liberal Party was set to fall short of a majority in the 338-seat House of Commons, according to the
latest result projections of Monday’s election. The Liberals were expected to win 157 seats, 13 short of the 170 needed for a majority government. It means Trudeau will be forced to depend on other parties to govern. The
opposition Conservatives, led by Andrew Scheer, appeared to be slightly ahead in the popular vote, but the party has not translated this success into parliamentary seats. Continued on page 7
Two reasons why walmart CEO pleaded PM Modi for stable business environment According to ET, Walmart CEO Doug Mcmillon has urged PM Modi through a letter to make reforms in the Indian FDI structure by infusing certainty and stability in it. After India introduced its new FDI norms
targeting $5 trillion economy, Walmart got disappointed just after the FDI introduction as Walmart paid 16 million dollars to acquire Flipkart. McMillon, who had met Modi in New York on September 25 during the
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