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Whether Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party government wins or loses in the Canadian federal election later in October, it is clear that the honeymoon is over for voters.
By any measure, it was a remarkable meteoric rise.
Despite polling at
25 percent just three months before the 2015 election, Trudeau led the battered Liberals to a historic win that saw the party increase its percentage of the vote by close to 21 points from its showing in 2011. More importantly, the party grew from 36 seats to 184 to secure the largest increase in seats in Canadian history and a healthy majority government.
Trudeau pledged to abandon the callous policies and cynical outlook of his predecessor, Stephen Harper, in favor of a 'progressive' agenda based on economic growth and compassion and justice for those who were being ignored or left behind, especially Canada's indigenous communities.
His family pedigree gave many Canadians reason to believe that he was indeed a new brand of reformer, especially for those who can trace their entry into the country to the immigration policies created by the liberal government of Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Justin's father. Regarded as a maverick politician, Pierre also introduced the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and famously deployed a foreign policy that made him no friends in Washington.
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