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Today, Explained

Yes We Canada?

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Justin Trudeau won re-election on Tuesday, but it wasn't pretty. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:27.9

Canada had a big election yesterday, but maybe before we get into the results, you could

0:32.1

use a quick primer on how their elections even work.

0:39.9

We're a charmingly archaic constitutional monarchy.

0:43.2

That means the queens on all the coins.

0:45.8

We're big fans of the queen up here. It does mean that we didn't overthrow anybody in order

0:49.4

to gain our independence and freedom. That just, you know, we asked for it nicely. And we

0:53.3

have a parliamentary system, which means that we have 338 elections that happen across

0:58.2

the country. You don't elect your head of state. You elect your local member of parliament.

1:03.3

And the party that goes on to elect the most members of parliament typically gets the

1:08.7

chance to form government.

1:11.2

And without further ado, the results of the Canadian election.

1:19.8

From coast to coast to coast, tonight Canadians rejected division and negativity.

1:29.8

They rejected cuts and austerity. And they voted in favor of a progressive agenda and

1:36.8

strong action on climate change.

1:47.6

Yes, Canadian JT one, but he also kind of lost his party. The liberals don't have enough

1:53.2

seats in parliament to pass legislation on their own. So they're going to have to form

1:58.0

coalitions. It's undeniably a setback for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

2:03.7

When he was elected four years ago, you know, the wind of optimism and hope and change

2:07.4

was at his back. He was a bit of a celebrity, even in the United States. I mean, he scored

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