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Luke Savage, hey everyone. At last, we reached the exciting conclusion of our Canadian election

coverage. Loyal listeners will know that over the last, what's it been, two months or so,

five weeks. Five weeks. We've had an election cycle in Canada. Justin Trudeau's liberal government dissolved

parliament in hopes of attaining a majority government in parliament. What happened? Did they get a

majority? Yeah, I mean, the answer is not very much happened. There was a... I just want to say

that I didn't look at the results. I've been waiting all week in suspense for you to drop the

news to be personal. Yeah, I mean, at this point, you know, this has about as much dramatic tension

as the film we watched this week. But I mean, basically, the short answer is that nothing happened.

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