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Canada votes in election that could see Trudeau lose power

By ROB GILLIES kingmaker, the Bloc or the
Associated Press New Democrats. He said
TORONTO (AP) — Cana- Trudeau is most likely to win
dian Prime Minister Justin the largest number of seats
Trudeau faced the threat because the Liberal vote
of being knocked from is more efficient than the
power after one term as Conservatives.
the nation held parliamen- Scheer is a career politi-
tary elections on Monday. cian described by those in
The 47-year-old Trudeau his own party as bland, a
channeled the star pow- possible antidote for those
er of his father, the liberal tired of Trudeau's flash.
icon and late Prime Minis- Scheer, 40, calls Trudeau a
ter Pierre Trudeau, when he phony who can't even re-
won in 2015 but a combi- call how many times he has
nation of scandal and high worn blackface.
expectations have dam- Scheer is promising to end
aged his prospects. a national carbon tax and
Polls indicate Trudeau's Lib- cut government spend-
eral Party could lose to the ing, including foreign aid,
rival Conservatives, or per- by 25%. "That money be-
haps win but still fail to get longs to you, not to them,"
a majority of seats in Parlia- Scheer said.
ment and have to rely on Trudeau embraced immi-
an opposition party to re- Liberal leader and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau makes a campaign stop at the Hamilton Fire gration at a time when the
main in power. Department's administration and training academy in Hamilton, Ont. on Saturday Oct. 19, 2019. U.S. and other countries are
"It's a coin toss," said Nik Na- Associated Press closing their doors, and he
nos, a Canadian pollster. Stone magazine under the attorney general said he Quebecois party. Trudeau's legalized cannabis nation-
Not in 84 years has a first- headline "Why Can't He Be pressured her to halt the Liberals would likely rely on wide. His efforts to strike a
term Canadian prime min- Our President?" prosecution of a Quebec the New Democrats to stay balance on the environ-
ister with a parliamentary Perhaps sensing Trudeau is company. Trudeau has in power. ment and the economy
majority lost a bid for re- in trouble, Barack Obama said he was standing up for "One of the outcomes of have been criticized by
election. made an unprecedented jobs, but the damage gave this election might be the both the right and left. He
Trudeau brought his wife endorsement by a former a boost to the Conserva- rise of regional division," Na- brought in a carbon tax to
and three kids along as he American president in urg- tive Party led by Andrew nos said. fight climate change but
voted in his district in Mon- ing Canadians to re-elect Scheer. Nanos said the Conserva- rescued a stalled pipeline
treal. Trudeau reasserted Trudeau and saying the No party is expected to get tives might primarily be a expansion project to get
liberalism in 2015 after al- world needs his progressive a majority of Parliament's western regional party, Alberta's oil to international
most 10 years of Conserva- leadership now. 338 seats, so a shaky alli- the Liberals, an Ontario re- markets.
tive Party government in But old photos of Trudeau ance may be needed to gional party, the Bloc, a His also negotiated a new
Canada, but he is one of in blackface and brown- pass legislation. Quebec regional party, free trade deal for Canada
the few remaining progres- face surfaced last month, If Conservatives should win and the New Democrats with the U.S. and Mexico
sive leaders in the world. casting doubt on his judg- the most seats — but not a British Columbia regional amid threats by President
He has been viewed as a ment. a majority — they would party. Donald Trump to scrap it.
beacon for liberals in the Trudeau also was hurt by probably try to form a gov- Nanos said if a minority Pat Gill, a Vancouver re-
Trump era, even appear- a scandal that erupted ernment with the backing government emerges, the tiree, said she voted for
ing on the cover of Rolling this year when his former of Quebec's separatist Bloc big question is who will be Trudeau.q
Water cut to migrant camp as Bosnian authorities feud

the government into re- trying to reach Western situation, situation is very
ducing the population of Europe. dirty here," he told The As-
the overcrowded site that "It is obvious that the situa- sociated Press.
international organizations tion must be brought to the Ali and other migrants
have criticized as unsuit- verge of absurdity in order were lining up Monday for
able. But aid workers said to be solved," complained a meal from the local Red
the move will just cause Bihac mayor Suhret Fazlic. Cross. Police last week
additional suffering for the Both the United Nations rounded up hundreds of
Vucjak tent camp's 1,000 and the European Union migrants from Bihac and
residents, many of whom missions in Bosnia have brought them all to Vuc-
walked out of the site with urged authorities to relo- jak, nearly doubling the
empty plastic bottles to cate the migrants from camp population.
beg water from Bosnians Vucjak — which is situated Fazlic has warned that the
Migrants wait in line to receive supplies from the Red Cross at living in the vicinity. on a former landfill and city will also cut waste col-
the Vucijak refugee camp outside Bihac, northwestern Bos- Officials in the northwest- near minefields left over lection services to draw
nia, Monday, Oct. 21, 2019. ern town also announced from the 1992-95 war. attention to the camp's
Associated Press a crisis meeting to discuss Camp resident Osman Ali, failings and force the gov-
By ELDAR EMRIC ties in the Bosnian town of what to do with the camp, from Pakistan, described ernment to share the bur-
Associated Press Bihac on Monday cut off which hosts migrants conditions as "bad, very den and move some of
BIHAC, Bosnia-Herzegov- a nearby migrant camp's stopped in the impover- bad." "I think all people the migrants to other parts
ina (AP) — Local authori- water supply, to pressure ished Balkan country while here are seeking a better of the country.q