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		</div><p>Canadians go to the polls on Monday after a tight election campaign that has raised the threat of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau being knocked from power after one term.</p>
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<p>The 47-year-old Mr Trudeau channelled the star power of his father, the Liberal Party icon and late Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, when he won in 2015, but a combination of scandal and high expectations have damaged his prospects.</p>
<p>Polls indicate Mr Trudeau’s Liberals could lose to the rival Conservatives, or perhaps win but still fail to get a majority of seats in Parliament and have to rely on an opposition party to remain in power.</p>
<p>Not in 84 years has a first-term Canadian prime minister with a parliamentary majority lost a bid for re-election.</p>
<figure id="attachment_142428" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-142428" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-142428" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/1A28A38F-2303-4D65-955C-56A3D499C817.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="384" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-142428" class="wp-caption-text">Conservative leader Andrew Scheer</figcaption></figure>
<p>Mr Trudeau reasserted liberalism in 2015 after almost 10 years of Conservative Party government in Canada, but he is one of the few remaining progressive leaders in the world.</p>
<p>He has been viewed as a beacon for liberals in the Trump era, even appearing on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine under the headline “Why Can’t He Be Our President?”</p>
<p>Perhaps sensing Mr Trudeau is in trouble, Barack Obama made an unprecedented endorsement by a former American president in urging Canadians to re-elect Mr Trudeau and saying the world needs his progressive leadership now.</p>
<p>But old photos of Mr Trudeau in blackface and brownface surfaced last month, casting doubt on his judgement.</p>
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<p>Mr Trudeau also was hurt by a scandal that erupted this year when his former attorney general said he pressured her to halt the prosecution of a Quebec company. Mr Trudeau has said he was standing up for jobs, but the damage gave a boost to the Conservative Party led by Andrew Scheer.</p>
<p>No party is expected to get a majority of Parliament’s 338 seats, so a shaky alliance may be needed to pass legislation.</p>
<blockquote><p>Scheer has been hostage to the message. His campaign has made him into an attack machine</p></blockquote>
<p>If Conservatives should win the most seats – but not a majority – they would probably try to form a government with the backing of Quebec’s separatist Bloc Quebecois party.</p>
<p>Mr Trudeau’s Liberals would likely rely on the New Democrats to stay in power.</p>
<p>Mr Scheer is a career politician described by those in his own party as bland, a possible antidote for those tired of Mr Trudeau’s flash. Mr Scheer, 40, calls Mr Trudeau a phony who can not even recall how many times he has worn blackface.</p>
<p>Jason Kenney, Alberta’s premier and a close friend of Mr Scheer, calls the Conservative leader “an extremely normal Canadian” who is so nice he “can’t fake being mean”.</p>
<p>Mr Scheer, however, has so relentlessly attacked Mr Trudeau that Nik Nanos, a Canadian pollster, said he has not been himself.</p>
<blockquote><p>“Scheer has been hostage to the message,” Mr Nanos said. “His campaign has made him into an attack machine.”</p></blockquote>
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<p>Conservative supporters chanted “Lock him up! Lock him up!” at a rally on Saturday after Mr Scheer said he would investigate Mr Trudeau’s attorney general scandal – mirroring the Hillary Clinton “Lock her up!” chant popular at Donald Trump rallies.</p>
<p>Mr Scheer moved to calm the crowd and changed the chant to “Vote him out.”</p>
<p>Mr Trudeau embraced immigration at a time when the US and other countries are closing their doors, and he legalised cannabis nationwide.</p>
<p>His efforts to strike a balance on the environment and the economy have been criticised by both the right and left.</p>
<p>He brought in a carbon tax to fight climate change but rescued a stalled pipeline expansion project to get Alberta’s oil to international markets.</p>
<p>He also negotiated a new free trade deal for Canada with the US and Mexico amid threats by President Donald Trump to scrap it.</p>
<p>Mr Scheer is promising to end the carbon tax and cut government spending, including foreign aid, by 25 per cent.</p>
<p>“That money belongs to you, not to them,” Mr Scheer said.</p>
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