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The Hello and welcome to behind the news.

My name is Doug Henwood, the regulation two guests in two segments today.

Jeet here will analyze the recent Canadian election, and a political scientist, Natasha Piano,

will talk about the Italian School of Elite Theory. Canada first. On April 28th, Canada held a national

election in which the incumbent Liberal Party got the most votes, though short of a majority.

Since it's a parliamentary system, the party's leader, Mark Carney, became the prime minister,

a position he'd already held thanks to the resignation of his predecessor, Justin Trudeau.

Trudeau and his government had been deeply unpopular, and it was universally believed

at the Conservative Party, led by Pierre Poliev, would win.

Trudeau himself was so unpopular that he resigned as party leader and therefore prime minister,

and was succeeded by Carnie in March.

That succession was confirmed by the recent election.

Carney was initially read as a caretaker, then Donald Trump started talking about annexing Canada

and everything changed.

Here to explain the election and the general landscape of Canadian politics is the journalist

Jeet here.

Jeet is paradoxically the national correspondent for the nation, even though he's Canadian, a fact

unmentioned on his nation bio page.

But hey, whatever, we're internationalists at behind the news.

Jeet here.

What happened to Trudeau? He was a prime minister not that long ago, and then Trump

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