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Wednesday 11 september 2019
Canada election campaign begins Wednesday

By ROB GILLIES ally, strongly pro-refugee —
Associated Press more refugees in Canada
TORONTO (AP) — Cana- now than the United States
dian Prime Minister Justin in the last year,” he said.
Trudeau will kick off the of- “He’s strongly in favor of
ficial start of his re-election free trade so there are
campaign Wednesday in very few leaders, certainly
what is expected to be a in the advanced industrial
tight race. democracies, that have
The prime minister’s office that kind of unapologetic,
said Tuesday that Trudeau pro-internationalist, pro-
will seek the dissolution of humanist set of values and
Parliament during a visit governing record,” Brem-
with the governor gen- mer added.
eral Wednesday morning Trudeau finds himself vul-
ahead of parliamentary nerable following one of
elections to be held Oct. the biggest scandals in
21. Canadian political history,
Tall and trim, Trudeau which arose when his for-
channeled the star pow- mer attorney general said
er of his father when he he improperly pressured
won in 2015. But the son of her to halt the criminal
late Prime Minister Pierre prosecution of a company
Trudeau could be in trou- In this Dec. 5, 2017, photo, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks to the media at a hotel in Quebec. Trudeau has
ble. in Beijing, China. said he was standing up for
Polls say the opposition Associated Press jobs.
Conservative party with “Anyone following Ca- Canada has been a strong cant hit to internationalism, The scandal rocked the
its untested leader, An- nadian politics right now defender of human rights Bremmer said. government and led to
drew Scheer, is close to understands it’s not a la- but has felt isolated with “Here is a guy who is un- multiple resignations earlier
Trudeau’s Liberals. yup for Trudeau,” said Ian Trump in the White House, apologetically strongly pro- this year, causing a drop in
Not since 1935 has a gov- Bremmer, president of the an emerging authoritarian human rights internation- poll ratings for Trudeau.q
ernment that won a major- Eurasia Group. China and emboldened
ity of seats in Parliament in Trudeau has been viewed China and Saudi Arabia.
its first term lost power in the as a beacon of hope by If Trudeau were to lose 500 refugees trapped in Libya
next election in Canada. liberals in the Trump era. power it would be a signifi-
to be evacuated to Rwanda

By LORI HINNANT self has been the repeated
Associated Press focus of abuse allegations.
PARIS (AP) — Rwanda The U.N. says its own center
agreed Tuesday to take for migrants and refugees
in 500 refugees and asy- in Tripoli is becoming dan-
lum-seekers trapped in gerously overcrowded as
Libya under an agreement is its center for evacuees in
signed with the United Na- Niger. The U.N. says around
tions and African Union. 4,700 people are being
The deal comes after re- held in Libyan detention
peated allegations of dire centers and around 1,000
conditions for migrants in in a separate U.N. facility in
Libya’s detention centers, Tripoli.
including beatings and Rwanda, however, has a
other abuses, rape and a troubled past with refu-
lack of both medical care gees. Amnesty Interna-
and food. Many are inter- tional said that in 2018,
cepted in the Mediterra- Rwandan soldiers fired on
nean by the EU-funded Lib- protesting Congolese refu-
yan coast guard, which it- gees, killing at least 11.q

Rescued migrants rest near the city of Khoms, around 120
kilometers (75 miles) east of Tripoli, Libya., Tuesday, Aug. 27,
2019.
Associated Press