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Voters made clear on Monday that Stephen Harper’s rightwing decade has run its course but Justin Trudeau’s victorious Liberals face tough choices approximately priorities, the Guardian’s editorial board wrote of the result. It is hardly surprising that Canadians contain voted for change rather than more of the same. Mr Harper’s vindictive and divisive style, and his addiction to shrinking the government,his authoritarian tendencies and his failure to offer anything new this time after a contentious whether successful decade in office had clearly run their course. One in three Canadians continued to back Mr Harper all the same. But the two in three who wanted rid of him finally gathered behind Mr Trudeau and sent NDP hopes of heading Canada’s first leftwing government of contemporary times back to the drawing board.
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Source: theguardian.com