Canada's Liberal leader Justin Trudeau rode a late surge to
a stunning majority election victory on Monday, toppling Prime Minister Stephen
Harper's Conservatives with a promise of change and returning a touch of glamor,
youth and charisma to Ottawa.
Harper conceded defeat and the Conservative party announced
his resignation, ending a nine-year run in power and the 56-year-old's brand of
fiscal and cultural conservatism that voters appeared to sour on.
The Liberals seized a Parliamentary majority, a turn in political
fortunes that smashed the record for the number of seats gained from one
election to the next. The center-left Liberals had been a distant third place
party before this election.
"My friends, we beat fear with hope. We beat cynicism
with hard work. We beat negative, divisive politics with a positive vision that
brings Canadians together," Trudeau, 43, told a crowd of cheering
supporters in Montreal.
"This is what positive politics can do."
The photogenic son of former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau
pledged to run a C$10 billion annual budget deficit for three years to invest
in infrastructure and help stimulate Canada's anemic economic growth.
This rattled financial markets ahead of the vote and the
Canadian dollar weakened on news of his victory.
Trudeau thanked his two closest friends and advisers for
shaping his campaign to show "that you can appeal to the better angels of
our nature. And you can win doing it."
- Trudeau has said he will repair Canada's cool relations with the Obama administration, withdraw Canada from the combat mission against Islamic State militants in favor of humanitarian aid and training, and tackle climate change.
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