How Does Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Sound To You?

It is looking like Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

A Brief from Doug Draper, Niagara At Large

It isn’t quite 10:30 p.m. and the polls in Ontario and Quebec have only been closed for half an hour, and already CBC is forecasting a Liberal Party victory – meaning, of course, that Justin Trudeau will be Canada’s 23^rd Prime Minister.

The only thing CBC is not forecasting yet is whether the Liberals will win a minority or a majority of seats they have so far been taking away at the expense of both Stephen Harper’s Conservatives and Tom Mulcair’s NDP – the party that was at least slightly ahead in a number of national polls when this election was called two-and-a-half months ago.

If CBC’s forecasts are correct, Trudeau, who the Harper Conservatives worked to brand as “not ready” to lead, has done one bang-up job of bringing a federal Liberal Party that has wallowed in political purgatory for the past decade back to power.

And it can also be said that if the forecasts are correct, the nine-year nightmare for a majority of Canadian voters who never cast a ballot for Harper and who angered time and time again over the damage they feel Harper’s Conservatives have been doing to Canada on both the domestic and world stage is finally over.

If Trudeau is our next prime minister, the 43-year-old son of the late Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, will have a herculean job ahead rebuilding the country as a progressive leader in in such areas as health care, environmental protection and as a voice for peace and justice around the world.

Much more on all of this, including riding races in Niagara and neighbouring regions, later.

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