All things considered, the Liberal Party should be happy it held onto power Monday night, according to a political science lecturer at Simon Fraser University.
Stewart Prest said given the scandals that seemed to dominate the news cycle for Justin Trudeau, it香蕉视频直播檚 impressive they held onto power at all.
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Some pundits have blamed the party香蕉视频直播檚 loss of 25 seats since last election on its record on climate change: buying the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, but keeping carbon taxes. But Prest disagreed.
In a campaign that香蕉视频直播檚 been described as nasty throughout, he said the Liberals provided plenty of non-policy targets such as the photos of Trudeau wearing racist makeup and the SNC-Lavalin affair.
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Scheer was dogged by his own social missteps, which started when he did not apologize for a 2001 video clip that surfaced of him .
He was also noticeably absent from gay pride parades across the country, and failed to disclose he held dual Canadian-U.S. citizenship despite disparaging other Canadian political figures in the past who also held dual citizenship.
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For the NDP, Prest said the votes they lost in Quebec to the Bloc Qu茅b茅cois are telling.
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Cara Camcastle, another political science instructor at SFU, agreed that the NDP didn香蕉视频直播檛 create enough momentum to shift the polls in time for voting day.
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They want a government that works for them. Not the rich and the powerful.
Camcastle said both the NDP and the Greens have an opportunity to affect decision making in the minority government.
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All parties will have to learn to cooperate better than they did on election night itself, she noted, when Trudeau broke with tradition and began his victory speech before the other parties had finished their concession speeches on live TV.
Prest said the Liberals will likely bend to NDP pressure on social issues like Pharmacare and daycare before they let go of the Trans Mountain expansion.
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