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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to hold his first full press conference following his party’s election victory last week which returned them to a minority government, albeit with a few additional seats from what they had at dissolution.
Trudeau did speak briefly this past Friday, but his statement and subsequent questions focused on the release of Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, who had been detained in China for more than 1,000 days. The prime minister announced late that night the two men had boarded a plane which had just left Chinese airspace when he stepped before cameras.
The Liberals under Trudeau gained three seats from dissolution, amounting to 158 – just one more than they won in 2019. The Conservatives remained at the 119 seats they had at dissolution, though made some gains in Atlantic Canada, including Newfoundland and Labrador where they had not seen a victory since 2011. The NDP only improved their own seat count by one, with 25 seats. The Bloc Quebecois increased by one to 33. The Green Party remained at two seats, losing one on Vancouver Island but winning one in Ontario. The People’s Party saw their popular vote total increase from 2019, but remained at zero seats.
It’s not yet known how Trudeau will govern after his bid for a majority government came up short, though it could look almost the same as the past two years with the Liberals finding support from other parties to survive confidence votes.
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.
China is the third largest country in the world by area and the largest country in the world by population. Properly known as the People’s Republic of China, the political territory of the country includes Tibet and Hong Kong. The capital is Beijing.
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.
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Voting is a method for a group, such as a meeting or an electorate, in order to make a collective decision or express an opinion usually following discussions, debates or election campaigns. Democracies elect holders of high office by voting. Residents of a place represented by an elected official are called “constituents”, and those constituents who cast a ballot for their chosen candidate are called “voters”. There are different systems for collecting votes, but while many of the systems used in decision-making can also be used as electoral systems, any which cater for proportional representation can only be used in elections.
In smaller organizations, voting can occur in different ways. Formally via ballot to elect others for example within a workplace, to elect members of political associations or to choose roles for others. Informally voting could occur as a spoken agreement or as a verbal gesture like a raised hand or electronically.