Justin Trudeau: The rise and (possible) fall of Canada's PM
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The Times
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🗓️ 16 September 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Last month Canada's prime minister Justin Trudeau called a snap election, hoping to capitalise on support for his pandemic response. With the election just days away, and polls showing a neck and neck race, could the move become one of Canada's biggest political miscalculations?
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| 0:36.1 | In the middle of last month, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a snap announcement. |
| 0:41.1 | Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Sunday called an early election for September 20th. |
| 0:46.5 | Canadians deserve their say. That's exactly what we're going to give them. |
| 0:52.1 | But as election day approaches, Trudeau's plan for a new mandate may be about to backfire. |
| 0:58.7 | If he were to lose, it would go down as one of the biggest miscalculations in Canadian political |
| 1:04.6 | history. You're listening to stories of our times from the times and the Sunday times. |
| 1:10.1 | I'm Calum Mcdonald. Today, the rise and possible fall of Justin Trudeau. |
| 1:15.8 | In Canada, you'll have cities, |
| 1:29.8 | get suburbs and then all of a sudden it will become extremely rural. |
| 1:33.9 | Charlie Mitchell is the Canada correspondent for the times and the Sunday times. |
| 1:38.1 | Difference is that those rural areas are not necessarily conservative as they might be. |
| 1:43.8 | Other places, they tend to be swing voters and that's certainly the case in Cobb. |
| 1:49.1 | Cobb is a semi-rural community, about a 45 minute drive to the west of Canada's capital city, |
| 1:55.4 | Ottawa. It has these enormous family homes at the end of long drive ways off |
| 2:01.9 | tree-lined avenues. There is farmland just mids away. It feels when you're there very much like a |
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