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		</div><p>Canadians have voted for a sea change in their government, returning a legendary name for liberals – Trudeau – to the prime minister’s office and resoundingly ending Conservative Stephen Harper’s near-decade in charge.</p>
<p>Justin Trudeau, the son of late premier Pierre Trudeau, became Canada’s new prime minister after his Liberal Party won a majority of parliament’s 338 seats.</p>
<p>The former teacher, an MP since 2008, is the second youngest prime minister in Canadian history.</p>
<p>&#8220;Tonight Canada is becoming the country it was before,&#8221; Mr Trudeau told a victory rally in Montreal.</p>
<p>“We beat fear with hope. We beat cynicism with hard work. We beat negative, divisive politics with a positive vision that brings Canadians together. Most of all we defeated the idea that Canadians should be satisfied with less.”</p>
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<p>The Liberals had been favoured to win the most seats, but few expected the final margin of victory to be as emphatic.</p>
<p>Mr Harper, one of the longest-serving Western PMs, announced he was stepping down as Conservative leader following the crushing defeat, instructing the party to appoint an interim head.</p>
<p>“The people are never wrong,” he said. “The disappointment is my responsibility and mine alone.”</p>
<p>Mr Harper said he called Mr Trudeau to congratulate him.</p>
<p>Mr Trudeau, tall and trim at 43, channels the star power, if not quite the political heft, of his father, who swept to power in 1968 on a wave of support dubbed “Trudeaumania”.</p>
<p>Thanking Mr Harper for his service, he said positive politics led his to his victory and Canadians had sent a message of change.</p>
<p>Pierre Trudeau, who was prime minister until 1984 with a short interruption, remains one of the few Canadian politicians known in America, his charisma often drawing comparisons to John F Kennedy.</p>
<p>A bachelor when he became prime minister, he dated actresses Barbra Streisand and Kim Cattrall and is a household name in Canadian history, responsible for the country’s version of the Bill of Rights.</p>
<p>His son, who has re-energised the Liberal Party since its devastating electoral losses four years ago, promises to raise taxes on the rich and run deficits for three years to boost government spending.</p>
<p>&#8220;We have a chance to bring real change to Canada and bring an end to the Harper decade,” Justin Trudeau said in Mr Harper’s adopted home province of Alberta, traditionally a Conservative stronghold.</p>
<p>Canada has shifted to the centre-right under Mr Harper, who has lowered both sales and corporate taxes, avoided climate change legislation and clashed with the Obama administration over the Keystone XL pipeline.</p>
<p>The Trudeau victory will ease tensions with the US. Although Mr Trudeau supports the Keystone pipeline, he argues relations should not hinge on the project.</p>
<p>Mr Harper has clashed with the US over other issues, including the recently-reached Iran nuclear deal.</p>
<p>Mr Trudeau’s opponents pilloried him as too inexperienced, but he embraced his boyish image on election day.</p>
<p>Sporting jeans and a varsity letter jacket, he posed for a photo standing on the thighs of two his colleagues to make a cheerleading pyramid, his campaign plane in the backdrop with “Trudeau 2015” painted in large red letters.</p>
<p>Mr Harper, 56, visited districts he won in the 2011 election in an attempt to hang on to them. On Saturday, he posed with Toronto’s former crack-smoking mayor, Rob Ford, in a conservative suburb.</p>
<p>Hurt when Canada entered a mild recession earlier this year, Mr Harper made a controversy over the Islamic face veil a focus of his campaign, a decision his opponents seized on to depict him as a divisive leader.</p>
<p>“A sea of change here. We are used to high tides in Atlantic Canada. This is not what we hoped for,” said Peter MacKay, a former senior Conservative cabinet minister, shortly after polls closed in Atlantic Canada.</p>
<p>Paula Mcelhinney, 52, from Toronto, voted Liberal to get rid of Mr Harper.</p>
<p>“I want to get him out, it’s about time we have a new leader. It’s time for a change,” she said.</p>
<p>“Canadians rejected the politics of fear and division,” New Democratic Party leader Tom Mulcair said of the Harper Conservatives.</p>
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