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Trudeau reaches deal to keep his party in power till 2025

(AP) — Prime Minister he said he’s confident it will ed twice.
Justin Trudeau said Tues- work.
day his Liberal Party has Tall and trim, Trudeau chan-
reached an agreement Anti-vaccine protesters and neled the star power — if not
with the leftist opposition truckers who laid siege to quite the political heft — of
New Democratic Party parts of Ottawa, the capital, his father, Pierre Trudeau,
that would keep his party called for Trudeau’s govern- who swept to power in 1968
in power until 2025. ment to be ousted earlier on a wave of support dubbed
this year. Now he’s assured “Trudeaumania.” Pierre
“What this means is during of staying in power for some Trudeau, who was prime
this uncertain time the gov- time. minister until 1984 with a
ernment can function with short interruption, remains
predictability and stability, “This is nothing more than a one of the few Canadian pol-
present and implement bud- Justin Trudeau power grab,” iticians known in America,
gets and get things done for interim Conservative Party his charisma often drawing
Canadians,” Trudeau said. leader Candice Bergen said. comparisons to John F. Ken- “However, his father Pierre ing Canada’s natural domi-
nedy. Trudeau, the third longest nant party again. “Politically
Trudeau’s Liberal Party won Trudeau said he plans to run serving Prime Minister on that’s a very considerable
reelection in September but again when the next election Daniel Béland, a politics pro- Canadian history, served for achievement. And he stopped
failed to win a majority of is held, which must be by fessor at McGill University in more than 15 years, a perfor- the rightward drift under
seats in Parliament and must 2025. Montreal, said the agreement mance his son might struggle Stephen Harper, and that’s
rely on the opposition to pass will provide much stability to to emulate,” Béland said. significant,” Bothwell said.
legislation. The NDP party “As I’ve said a number of Trudeau’s Liberal minority
will support Trudeau’s Lib- times, I am planning on con- government while promoting Robert Bothwell, a profes- Bothwell said Russia’s war
erals in exchange for deals tinuing to serve Canadians further left-leaning spending sor of Canadian history and against the Ukraine could
on pharmaceutical and den- through and beyond the next priorities like dental care and international relations at the mean another cold war and
tal care plans, but it will not election,” Trudeau said. medical drug coverage onto University of Toronto, said there will be pressure on
have a lawmaker in Trudeau’s the policy agenda. the agreement puts Trudeau Canada to bring the defense
Cabinet and Trudeau said the But there are widespread in a position to expand the budget up to 2% of GDP, a
NDP won’t have a veto on doubts that he will do so, giv- “This would create a frustrat- social welfare net and that’s measure on which it had long
any budget or any other leg- en that he would have been in ing situation, with less clout probably what he’d be re- lagged.
islation. power for 10 years, has seen a for the Conservative Party of membered for.
drop in his popularity and a Canada,” Béland said. “The last time Canada had
“We’ve agreed to work to- rise in animosity toward him “I think he realizes that and a really high defense expen-
gether,” Trudeau said. “It’s in much of western Canada. Béland calls the length of to some extent that’s what diture was about 4% in the
about focusing on what we Justin Trudeau’s tenure im- behind it,” Bothwell said. “A 1950s and 60s. When that
agree on instead of what we Trudeau is still remembered pressive, noting it would lot of people when they think happened they just put off
disagree on.” for evoking the prospect of make him one of the lon- of Trudeau, they just think any idea of expanding the
“sunny ways” when he took gest serving Prime Ministers of showy gestures, and they social safety net,” Bothwell
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh office in 2015 at age 43, the in recent debates, alongside think of semi woke politics.” said.
said it isn’t a coalition gov- second-youngest Canadian Jean Chrétien and Stephen
ernment and if the Liberals prime minister ever. There Harper, who both served for Bothwell said Trudeau’s leg- Bothwell said tax rates could
fall short on conditions the have been setbacks since about a decade. acy includes taking the party go up. “There’s room,” he
deal doesn’t continue. But then, but he has been reelect- from third party status to be- said.

UK slams Russia after officials duped by hoax video calls

(AP) — Britain accused minister. van and Lexus. The British late the truth.” made to speak to her.
Russia of spreading mis- government says the Russian
information on Tuesday Two videos of Defense Sec- state was behind the hoax, “People should be very scep- The U.K. government ac-
by posting doctored clips retary Ben Wallace speaking which it says was designed tical about reporting on, and cused Russian President
of the U.K.’s defense chief to the imposter were posted to sow false information and accepting as real, any part of Vladimir Putin of staging dis-
speaking to a hoaxer pos- on the YouTube channel of embarrass Britain. these Russian state-doctored tractions “to hide the scale of
ing as Ukraine’s prime Russian prankster duo Vo- clips,” it said in a statement. the conflict and Russia’s fail-
One clip, prefaced by shots It said Britain had “enough ings on the battlefield.”
of Buckingham Palace and weapons systems to defend
the Houses of Parliament, both U.K. national security “It seeks to be a distraction
shows Wallace speaking from and maintain our commit- from their illegal activities in
Poland to a caller who says ments to NATO.” Ukraine, their human rights
Ukraine wants to progress its abuses, and so we will not be
“nuclear program” to protect The government has distracted from our purpose
itself from Moscow, some- launched a security probe in ensuring Putin must fail in
thing Russian state media has into how a hoaxer posing Ukraine,” said Max Blain, a
baselessly claimed in the past. as Ukrainian Prime Minis- spokesman for Prime Minis-
ter Denys Shmyhal was put ter Boris Johnson.
Another shows Wallace ap- through on a video call to
pearing to suggest that Britain Wallace on Thursday. Wallace Vovan and Lexus have previ-
is “running out of our own” said he became suspicious ously targeted international
NLAW anti-tank weapons af- and hung up after the caller figures including Prince
ter giving 4,000 of the rocket “posed several misleading Harry, Elton John and Ca-
launchers to Ukraine to help questions.” nadian Prime Minister Jus-
resist the invasion Moscow tin Trudeau. The pair — real
launched on Feb. 24. Another hoax call was made names Vladimir Kuznetsov
to Home Secretary Priti Pa- and Alexei Stolyarov — have
Britain’s Ministry of Defense tel, and Culture Secretary been accused of having links
said the clips had been “fed Nadine Dorries said an un- to Russian security services, a
out to obscure and manipu- successful attempt also was claim they deny.