Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, has dissolved the parliament and called a snap election, gambling that voters will reward his handing of the coronavirus pandemic with a parliamentary majority as he pulls the plug on a two-year minority government.
Justin Trudeau launched Canadians into an election campaign Sunday that on the surface gives voters a choice between competing visions for a post-pandemic Canada.
But Trudeau also used his Day 1 words to shape the campaign’s subtext. Canada’s election, the Liberal leader suggested, could hinge on the philosophical clash between the vaccinated and the vaccine reluctant, reported Politico.
“We chose to make sure that federal public servants and everyone boarding a train or a plane be vaccinated. Not everyone agrees. Not every political party agrees,” Trudeau told reporters outside the front doors of Rideau Hall, where Governor General Mary Simon accepted his request to dissolve Parliament.
Conservative David Yurdiga, fi...