Washington • Canada’s voters brilliantly calibrated how to send just the message they hoped to deliver: They wanted to give Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a comeuppance, but did not want a Conservative government.
Monday's election achieved this outcome with near perfection. Trudeau will stay in office, but with a minority in the parliament. His Liberal Party lost 20 seats and was narrowly defeated in the popular vote by Andrew Scheer's Conservative Party, 34.4% to 33.1%. Severe scolding administered.
At the same time, voters elected enough MPs from the left-leaning New Democratic Party and the Greens to create a center-left parliamentary majority.