Global News published this video item, entitled “Canada election: Global News projects Liberal minority, Justin Trudeau remains prime minister” – below is their description.
The Liberals, led by Justin Trudeau, will head back to Parliament for their third consecutive term as the governing party, but they’ll need to negotiate with at least one other party to pass any legislation while they’re in office.
Neither the Liberals or Conservatives were able to hit the 170-seat threshold needed for a majority government as polls were counted Monday night.
Some results were still not finalized due to mail-in ballots, but Global News is projecting that once all votes are counted, the Liberals will hold a plurality of seats in the House of Commons.
Canada is a country in the northern part of North America. It extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles), making it the world’s second-largest country by total area.
Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching 8,891 kilometres (5,525 mi), is the world’s longest bi-national land border. Canada’s capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
Various Indigenous peoples inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years before European colonization. The Canada Act 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British Parliament. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy in the Westminster tradition, with a monarch and a prime minister who serves as the chair of the Cabinet and head of government.
As a highly developed country, Canada has the seventeenth-highest nominal per-capita income globally as well as the thirteenth-highest ranking in the Human Development Index. Its advanced economy is the tenth-largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources and well-developed international trade networks.
Justin Pierre James Trudeau PC MP is a Canadian politician who is the 23rd and current prime minister of Canada since November 2015 and the leader of the Liberal Party since April 2013.